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Junk Email settings There is nothing much to be mentioned under this topic as Entourage 2004 and its latest edition i.e. Entourage 2008 has inbuilt feature for Junk emails. It automatically creates a junk folder and sorts all the junk mails arriving the inbox. The basics of JMF (Junk Mail Folder) [i] It is strictly not recommended to put your junk mail folder in deleted items as there is possibility of some good mails being moved to the junk folder. [ii] JMF will not work on any contact that is added in your contacat list. [iii] This is inbuilt in Entourage 2004 & Entourage 2008, in older versions you have to setup JMF manually . If still you continue to get junk mails, you can get a free script to stop spam. New to Blogs? Learn the Basics

Understanding the basics of Rules in Entourage It is not worth telling you the purpose of rules as we all are well aware of the needs and the working method of rules in any mail client. In Entourage rules are divided into three basic types: (i) Mailing List Manager ( MLM ) (ii) Junk Mail Filter ( JMF ) (iii) Rules that you define (i) Mailing List Manager: Pre- designed by Entourage that is very user friendly and easy to set up for incoming mails from mailing lists . (ii) Junk Mail Filter: These are inbuilt rules by Entourage that are meant to stop the spam mails landing to your inbox. (iii) Rules defined by you: These are very customizable criteria that you set in order to sort, delete or perform any other action with the mails. We will learn the details of setting up and working with rules here. The order in which rules are executed are: First is Mailing List Manager (MLM), second is Junk Mail Filter (JMF) and last are Rules that you define. # It is very important for us to know