Avoid Spam by Protecting your WFU E-mail Address and using Junk Mail Controls
Spammers collect e-mail addresses from many sources. Replying to unsolicited junk messages or clicking unsubscribe links confirms your e-mail address and may encourage more spam. Enabling the junk mail controls and teaching Mozilla to recognize junk mail can greatly
reduce the volume of junk in your inbox.
Enabling Junk Mail Controls
- Go to the Tools menu and click Junk Mail Controls.
- With your WFU account selected in the pull down list, check Enable Junk Mail Controls.
- Review the other options listed. Some users prefer to have junk mail moved to the junk folder and then automatically deleted after a period of time.
- Next, train Mozilla 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 Mozilla learns more about which messages you consider junk, it gets better at identifying and removing them.
- Make sure to correct Mozilla when it incorrectly labels messages as junk by clicking the Not Jun
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Using Folders to Safeguard your E-mail
Leaving too many messages in your inbox can corrupt the inbox and result in a loss of messages. 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.
- Choose New Folder from the pop-up menu.
- Type a name for the new folder.
- Select a location for your new folder from the Create as subfolder of pull down menu.
- Do not create subfolders of the Inbox or leave large numbers of messages in the inbox as the inbox is the more vulnerable to becoming corrupted by viruses which can result in a loss of messages.
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