8.2.1   Entourage Customization

The following customizations are optional but recommended:

• Choose Entourage ‣ Preferences… and click on Notification. Turn off the sounds and new mail notifications, and let SpamSieve notify you only when you receive new non-spam messages.
• If you’re using an IMAP account, choose Tools ‣ Accounts. Edit the account and click on the Options tab. Make sure that Always download complete message bodies is checked and that Partially receive messages over is not checked.

Additional customizations are described below:

Change Settings

You can choose SpamSieve - Change Settings from Entourage’s Scripts menu to customize SpamSieve’s behavior in Entourage.

The settings are:

• Which folder should spam messages be moved to when you use “Train Spam”?
• Should “Train Spam” mark the messages as read?
• When you use “Train Good” on a message in the spam folder, should the message be moved back to the inbox?
• When you use “Train Good” on a message in the spam folder, should the message be marked as unread?
• Which folder should incoming spam messages be moved to? (This only affects POP messages. For IMAP and Exchange messages, you would need to modify the SpamSieve - Move Messages rule.)
• Should incoming spam messages be marked as read?
• Should incoming spam messages be removed from the mail server?
• Should incoming spam messages be marked with category “Uncertain Junk” rather than “Junk” if SpamSieve thinks they are not as spammy?

Spam Message Categories

SpamSieve colors spam messages in Entourage using one of two categories:

Junk

This is for messages that you mark as spam (using the SpamSieve - Train Spam command) and for most incoming messages that SpamSieve thinks are spam.

Uncertain Junk

This is for incoming messages that SpamSieve thinks are spam, but whose scores are below the uncertainty threshold. For more information about scores and uncertainty, see the Uncertain Spam Messages preference.

To change the colors associated with these categories, choose Edit ‣ Categories ‣ Edit Categories.

Normally, both Junk and Uncertain Junk messages are put into the same Junk E-mail folder. It is also possible to separate the messages by category. To do this:

1. Create a new folder in Entourage called Uncertain Junk.
2. Create a third rule called SpamSieve - Move Uncertain Messages. It should say “If Category Is Uncertain Junk, Then Move message Uncertain Junk.”
3. Drag the new rule between the SpamSieve - Move If Spam and SpamSieve - Move Messages rules.

To turn off the uncertain spam feature, so that all spam messages are marked using the Junk category, use the SpamSieve - Change Settings command.