To create a rule go to Mail > Preferences > Rules > Add Rule

A possible rule might look something like the following…
Quote:
Description: Annoyance Spam

If All: of the following conditions are met
Message content: Contains: A message that you sent has not yet been delivered

Perform the following actions:
Delete message
Stop evaluating rules

If you have one of the offending messages selected and you choose a condition such as subject or from Mail will automatically pull in the corresponding text from the selected message. Try to choose something that will be unique to these messages. You can make the rules more selective by adding conditions.

  • The stop evaluating command saves some processing time when a message has been identified.
  • Once the rule is established it will automatically be applied to any incoming message.
  • be sure and check your trash frequently until you know you are not inadvertently selecting messages you don't want to delete
  • Rules are evaluated in order from the top of the list to the bottom and you can drag and drop rules up and down to be sure they are evaluated in the order you want. If you are clever, and I have reason to believe you are from your posts here, you can do a lot with rules and/or sets of rules.
  • If you want to get really fancy rules can execute AppleScripts or Automator Workflows and trigger actions outside of Mail.


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