Enabling Junk Mail Controls

• Go to the Tools menu and click Junk Mail Controls.
• With your WFU account selected in the pull down list, click the Adaptive Filter tab and check Enable adaptive junk mail detection.
• Review the other options listed in the Settings tab. Some users prefer to have junk mail moved to the junk folder and then automatically deleted after a period of time.
• Next, train Thunderbird to recognize Junk messages and Non-Junk messages: From your Inbox, select a message. Click the Junk button in the toolbar to mark or unmark the message(s). As Thunderbird learns more about which messages you consider junk, it gets better at identifying and removing them.
• Make sure to correct Thunderbird when it incorrectly labels messages as junk by clicking the Not Junk

Using Folders to Safeguard your E-mail
Leaving too many messages in your inbox makes your messages vulnerable to viruses and corruption. Additionally if a virus makes it to the inbox it can also corrupt the inbox and result in a loss of messages. To avoid a loss of messages, move e-mail out of the inbox and into other folders.

• To create a folder, right-click on “username”@wfu.edu in the left message pane. WARNING: Do not create subfolders of the inbox.
• Choose New Folder from the pop-up menu
• Type a name for the new folder.

Creating a signature file using the VCard feature.

• Click on the Tools menu.
• Select Account Settings.
• Select “username” @wfu.edu.
• Check the box on the right, Attach my vCard to messages.
• Click Edit Card, fill in the fields and click OK.