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Take Control of Apple Mail Solve Problems, Work Smart, and End Spam

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ISBN-10: 0321321154

ISBN-13: 9780321321152

Edition: 2005

Authors: Joe Kissell, Adam Engst

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Readers will learn how to take advantage of Mail's built-in spam-fighting capabilities, organize their mail, backup and restore their mail database, set up rules and filters and more.
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Publication date: 10/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 8.98" wide x 6.93" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Adam C. Engst is the editor and publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters, distributed in five languages every week to hundreds of thousands of readers. He is the author or coauthor on numerous books and magazine articles, including Eudora 4.2 for Windows & Macintosh, The Official AT&T WorldNet Web Discovery Guide, and the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series of books. In addition, he has collaborated on several Internet educational videos and has appeared on a variety of nationally broadcast television and radio programs. He has yet to be turned into an action figure.

Foreword
Take Control Benefits
Take Control of Apple Mail
Free Updates
Time to Take Control!
Take Control of Email with Apple Mail
Introduction
Quick Start to Controlling Apple Mail
Problems and Solutions
Account Setup
Importing Email
Importing Addresses
Removing Extra Accounts
Backing up and Restoring Email
Learn about Email Protocols
POP
IMAP
.Mac
Exchange
SMTP
Fix Email Transfer Problems
Incoming Email Troubleshooting Checklist
Can't Retrieve POP Messages
Password Problems
SMTP Troubleshooting Checklist
Port-Blocking Problems
Authentication Errors
Purge SMTP Settings
The Viewer Window
Put the Mailbox Drawer on the Left
Use (Or Hide) the Preview Pane
Consolidate Message Lists
Manage Incoming Message Formats
Incoming Attachments
Opening Attached Files
Downloading (or Not) Attachments
Attachments from Entourage 2001 Users
Addressing Email
Address Book
The Address Panel
Automatic Address Completion
LDAP Servers
Hidden Address Fields
Sending Messages to Groups
Formatting Outgoing Email
Setting Your Default
HTML Messages
Quoted Text
Fix Unwanted Line Breaks
Manage Quote Characters in the Left Margin
Clickable Links
Outgoing Attachments
Guidelines
Sending Graphical Attachments
Manage Mailboxes
Mailbox Basics
Local and Server-Based Mailboxes
Multiple Users
Fixing a Damaged Mailbox
Handle Previous Recipients
Clean the Previous Recipients List
Turn On Address Display
Disable Previous Recipients
Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail
Introduction
Quick Start to Controlling Your Junk Mail
Learn about Junk Mail
What Is Spam, Anyway?
Fraudulent Email
What about Viruses?
The Blank Message Spam
Why Me?
Learn about Junk Mail Filtering
Filtering vs. Deleting
How Mail's Junk Mail Filter Works
About Statistical Filtering
Marking a Message as Junk Mail/Not Junk Mail
How the Previous Recipients List Works
A Word about Bouncing Messages
Optimize Your Junk Mail Filter
Turn It On (Again)
Train the Junk Mail Filter
Reduce False Negatives
Reduce False Positives
Fix Automatic Mode Inconsistencies
Find "Invisible" Junk Mail Messages
Keep a Junk Mail Archive
Go beyond the Junk Mail Filter
Use Add-On Spam Filters
Try Other Anti-Spam Add-Ons
Try Server-Based Filtering
Appendixes
Rules
Create a Rule
Use Multiple Conditions and Actions
Rule Limitations and Workarounds
Rule Tips
Software Sources
Mail Add-Ons
Anti-Spam Software
Other Email Clients
Bulk HTML Email Applications
The Shoot Blanks Script
About the Author
Glossary
Index