Apple’s Mail app has a nifty feature that pretty much takes care of your junk mail for you. Cleverly called Junk Mail, this mailbox handles all the spam emails that might get to your inbox, so you don’t have to waste your time with it.
But, of course, it’s not perfect. The good news is that you may customize your experience in the Mail app so that you can further reduce the amount of junk mail you’re getting. Let’s go over what you need to do.
How to Quickly Mark Emails as Junk in Apple Mail on a Mac
As we mentioned, even though weknow email spam filters workin Apple’s Mail app, you might still get some junk mail every now and then. One of the reasons is that Apple Mail doesn’t recognize a certain email as junk.
Fortunately, you may manually mark it as junk, so you don’t have to deal with it in the future. Here’s how:
Your Mac will automatically move that message to the Junk folder, which you can find on the left sidebar. If you didn’t mean to mark it as junk, you can pressCommand + Zor go to the Junk folder, select the message you want, and then click the same button in the toolbar to move it back to your inbox.
Remember not to just delete junk mail. It’s best to mark it as junk so the Mail app learns and understands which messages it should get rid of in the future.
How to Configure Your Junk Mail Settings on a Mac
Besides marking emails as junk, you can go one step further and change the Junk Mail settings on your Mac so that the Mail app improves how it handles the spam mail you get. This is what you need to do:
In theJunk Mail Behaviorstab, you can customize how the Mail app will deal with spam in the future. For instance, you can customize what the Mail app should do as soon as junk mail arrives or if it should trust headers in messages or not.
Play around with the settings until you find something you’re comfortable with.Organizing your emails on your Maccan be tricky, so getting rid of junk mail as soon as it hits your inbox is a must-have feature.
Keep Your Mac Free of Junk Mail
Getting junk emails is annoying, but you can let your Mac do the job for you. Even though the Junk Mail feature in Apple’s Mail app isn’t perfect, you can improve it by changing your settings or marking spam messages as soon as you notice them. This will only take a few minutes, but it can greatly clean up your mailbox moving forward.
