Disabling junk mail filtering for specific domains

I have a situation where I am getting dozens of messages from individuals all in a specific domain, and all are good messages which I want in my inbox; Mail however thinks they are all junk and moves them to the junk folder. They are NOT brown so I cannot select them and say they are not junk mail, they look like regular email. These are from people I do NOT want in my address book yet they are messages I need to respond to.
How can I tell the junk mail filter that massages from a given domain should not be filtered? In short, I want just the right-hand-side of the address, the domain component, to be given the OKAY!
Thanks - Lawrence

Thanks - I tried the advance tab but could not see how to specify a domain but now I look again I see that there is a way - I think. But Kappy, what you say tells me something I did not know: I thought that filters, rules, et al, were applied when a message is in the inbox - but I have this wrong I think. If I read your reply rightly - the message is examined for junk filters, rules, et al, BEFORE it gets assigned to ANY mailbox! Am I right? This is how your suggestion would work. So I can have an initial rule that simple uses a list of approved domains - and sticks anything from such a domain into the inbox where no more filtering or rule analysis will take place. And the more I think about this, the more it makes sense.
Thanks - Lawrence

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Disable Junk Mail Filtering on a Specific Account

Is there a way to disable junk mail filtering on a specific account?
My Mac at home is always running Mail, which checks my work email. When I am at work, Mail (at home) sometimes marks a message as junk, and therefore my work mail program (Thunderbird) never gets it.
I know I could just close Mail when I leave home, but then I'd have to open it again when I get home and that's too much trouble.
Thanks!
Powermac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2) Mail 2.1

You're welcome.
I'm still interested though if this is possible...
I am almost 100% certain there is not a way to enaable/disable junk mail filtering by account with the Mail.app.
For now, I've disabled moving junk mail to a different folder,
so it just marks it as junk and doesn't move it.
There is no selection to move messages marked as junk to a different mailbox. When Junk Mail is set to Automatic, messages automatically or manually marked as junk are moved to the account's Junk mailbox automatically. When Junk Mail is set to Training, messages automatically or manually marked as junk remain in the account's Inbox mailbox.
You don't have Junk Mail set to Automatic with the Mail.app?
If not set to Automatic, messages marked as junk by the Mail.app will remain in the account's Inbox mailbox and will not removed from the server.
If set to Automatic, you can select "Store junk messages on the server" under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences. This way, any messages automatically marked as junk by the Mail.app will be stored on the server when the message is automatically moved to the account's Junk mailbox which will allow access to the same message when using another email client on a different computer at work.
This is a benefit of an IMAP type account over a POP type account so you have two options here.
Set Junk Mail to Automatic and store Junk messages on the server with the Mail.app or quit the Mail.app when leaving home.

Junk mail filtering problem

My Mail v2.1 (752/752.2) has learned, and presumably is still learning on an ever-ongoing basis, what is Junk and what is not Junk mail and it seems to be pretty accurate.
However, it always treats two specific senders, from which I receive emails fairly regularly, as Junk no matter how many times I click the Not Junk button to tell Mail that they are not junk.
Why does it persist in failing to learn these two specific sender addresses and how can I "force" it to learn without dumping the whole Junk filtering criteria and starting again?
Thanks.

Ok, here goes ...
added to the Window > Previous Recipients - Yes, both are there.
Sender of message is in my Previous Recipients is checked - No, it asn't but it is now!
Have you made any changes to the junk filter in Preferences > Junk Mail > Advanced? - Not knowingly. The logic is: If All: Sender is not in my previous Recipients > Sender is not in my addresss book > Message is Junk mail then Move message to Junk.
Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, disable junk mail filtering, then enable it again. - Done.
Choose either Training or Automatic mode - Automatic selected.
lick Advanced to see how the junk filter rule is defined now - The logic now is: If All: Sender is not in my previous Recipients > Sender is not in my addresss book > Message is Junk mail then Move message to Junk which looks pretty much the same to me except for the order, but that shouln't matter should it?
but don’t touch anything there - I wouldn't dare! :-))
Thanks, I'll report back when I receive any new emails from them. As one of them is news alerts from Lynchburg, Virginia there will peoably be a few after this afternoon's (UK time) news of today's shootings.

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I am trying to figure out how to turn off the Junk Mail filtering for IMAP accounts such as .Mac/.ME and GMAIL. All filtering is working fine on the server side, and reviewing the mail that is tagged is easy enough by just going to the account and displaying the folders created on the server.
I've checked the Junk mail pref and although the Advance settings let you isolate specific accounts to check, it does not give you the option bypass checking an account.
i.e.
if <Any> of the following conditions are met:
<Account> <is not> <Gmail (IMAP)>
As is, the mail rules are working perfectly on the server side, but in Apple Mail, many mails are being sent the Apple Mail's Junk folder.
When going through the Gmail's instructions on setting up a Gmail account for Apple Mail, it specifically says to turn off Junk mail filtering for the account, but I can't find any options to do that.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
TIA

I haven't tried this, but it should work:
Make a new rule,
If <Any> <Account> is <Gmail> or <Account> is <.me> then "Stop evaluating rules".
Move this rule to the last in the list of rules.
In the Junk Mail preferences, be sure that "Filter junk mail before applying my rules" is unchecked.

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I'd like to disable automatic spell-checking for specific domains, such as programming-oriented forums. Is there a way to do this in about:config?

See:
*https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Controlling_spell_checking_in_HTML_forms
You could create a Greasemonkey script to add a spellcheck="false" attribute or create a bookmarklet to add the attribute.

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How can I disable the Junk mail folder for an email account?

Hi scottyfrank68,
Junk mail filtering can be turned off by going to the Mail menu > Preferences > Junk Mail pane and unchecking the box Enable junk mail filtering. See this article -
Mail (Mavericks): Junk Mail preferences
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Junk mail exceptions for domains

I've searched the forums and cannot find an answer to my question.
Leopard Mail marks a lot of my good mail from school as junk. Is there anyway to keep Mail from marking all emails from "@school.edu" as junk? The school email system already has a pretty good spam filter on it, and so 99.99% of the emails from "@school.edu" are legitimate.
Might a rule fix this? I can't figure out how I would structure it.

I was just hoping to give this thread a bump, see if there was an answer, even a "No, it's not possible."
I have the same issue, a lot of school e-mails get marked as junk, and it makes me cautious to enable junk mail filtering so that I don't lose important e-mails. I was surprised that "Mark" as "Not Junk" wasn't an available option for the filtering rules.
Any help is appreciated!

Junk Mail only works after I disable and reenable Junk Mail Filtering

Since installing Tiger, junk mail filtering does not work automatically. It neither marks incoming messages as junk nor moves them to the Junk folder.
I am able to get it to work by selecting Preferences > Junk Mail and then unchecking "Enable junk mail filtering" and then checking it. Mail then asks to "Move Junk Messages" and when I respond "Yes" it marks the appropriate messages as Junk and moves them to the Junk folder.
Unfortunately, it only works for the messages already received. New mail that is "junk" is not marked as such and appears in my inbox and I have to repeat the manual process to get it removed.
Any suggestions for a more permanent solution?
17 iMac Mac OS X (10.4)

Will it also forget the "learned" junk mail? (That took years to learn.)
No.
The MessageRules.plist file stores all Mail.app rules including the default Junk Mail rules.
All Junk Mail "learned" settings are stored in the LSMMap2 file also located at the first level within the Mail folder.
Since the LSMMap2 file can become corrupt as with any other file, this file should be included with a regular backup of the Mail folder and the Mail.app preference file at Home > Library Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist.
All Mail.app account information is stored in the Mail.app preference file.
If you experience any problems with the Junk Mail filter, your options are using the Junk Mail reset feature which resets all "learned" settings or replace the existing LSMMap2 file with a copy of a working backup copy with the Mail.app quit before doing so.
If the Mail.app preference file becomes corrupt (which I've never experienced but others have), when targeting the preference file requires re-entering all email account information. If you have a working backup copy of the com.apple.mail.plist file, you can replace the existing with the Mail.app quit before doing so without having to re-enter all email account information again.
You need to replace an existing backup copy of the Mail.app preference file only after making any changes to account information or when adding or deleting an account in Mail.
You may already have a backup strategy but if not, it is very important since it isn't a matter of if but when your hard drive has a partial or complete failure. I learned my lesson the hard way about 5 years ago. Without warning, I experienced a complete hard drive failure. I didn't maintain a backup at the time and none of the existing data was recoverable.

Junk Mail Filtering - is it me or is it just rubbish?

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but didn't have the patience to wade through all the threads. Hopefully someone can help...
Frankly, I think the filtering on Mail (using 3.5 with OSX 10.5.6) is hopeless. Simply put, I've tried configuring it every which way in Preferences but the same issues persist. The main one being that when I configure to "exclude" those in my address book and/or previous recipients list from junk mail filtering ...people in my address book (SPECIFICALLY ME) still end up in the junk mail folder.
I have 2 accounts: Mail.com (POP3) and Gmail (IMAP) and I use an iPhone for mobile access. And I have a work email. All three are in my address card in Address Book.
Yet whenever I send myself (or anyone else) an email -- either from work or from my iPhone or even from within Mail -- it still ends up in the junk mail folder.
I think the problem is that Mail's filtering doesn't look at email addresses. It must look at how the name is set up??? i.e., LAST FIRST or FIRST LAST, etc. and when any of these don't match up it puts it into junk mail folder????
It just seems rubbish to me. Outlook had much more sophisticated filtering options\rule set up.
Anyone got any ideas on how to solve this? Thanks.

Mulder wrote:
If you have multiple email addresses in your card in Address Book, which messages are going to Junk, and what email address was used?
All three emails go to junk. My work to either personal address. Gmail to Mail and Mail to Gmail emails all go to junk
Have you tried setting up the Junk filter so that:
If any of the following conditions are met:
*Sender is not in my Address Book*
*Sender is not in my Previous Recipients*
Message is Junk Mail
Perform the following actions:
*Move message to mailbox: (Junk mailbox On My Mac)*
Yep. Tried that. Still didn't work. Even tried ticking "not junk" on each of the several tests I've sent myself -- and then re-sent more tests, which still ended up in junk????
As I said, I've tried virtually every possible configuration of boxes ticked and unticked and nothing...
My latest setting (using your advanced rules above) were:
Enable Junk Mail - ticked
When Junk Mail arrives - 'perform custom actions'
Msgs Exempt - In address book and previous recipients both ticked. Use my full name unticked
Trust ISP headers - unticked
Filter before applying rules - have tried this both ticked and unticked... same result
Thanks,
The Smoking Man
PS - Should add that when others send me email to the Gmail or Mail accounts they properly go to inbox, not junk. It's just when I send myself something (anything, really)...

Junk mail filtering only working on internal mail (and only some of them)

Good morning
I'm trying to get Junk Mail filtering working properly on my server (currently running 10.5.6). All mail that comes from externally doesn't seem to pass through the spam filter at all. It gets scanned for viruses (in the email header i get "X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.co.uk" but no sign of any spam filtering.
I have previously configured the filtering using the instructions here http://www.netmojo.ca/blog/2009/04/13/spam-proofing-leopard-server/ but i had been searching through the support here and had started following the instructions in the OS X mail manual, creating a junkmail user and forwarding email to it. Whilst doing this i noticed that some emails had started to be tagged as junk using the settings i had set in server admin. These have something like the following in the email header:
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.co.uk
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Score: 3.479
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=3.479 tagged_above=2 required=2
tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=0.286, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,
RAZOR2CF_RANGE_51100=0.5, RAZOR2CF_RANGE_E8_51100=1.5,
RAZOR2_CHECK=0.5, URIBLOBSURBL=2.132]
However those emails not tagged as spam do not have any such lines. I would have expected to see X-Spam-Flag: NO and the spam score and such. Are these lines hidden if a mail does not trigger the threshold?
I've had this aparently learning for about a week now and even with the setting set on 1 it's still yet to catch a single piece of junk mail entering into the server.
I do have emails to quite a few different domains directed to this server so i added the lines suggested here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7034527&#7034527 to /etc/amavisd.conf but to no avail.
Any suggestions? Any parts of any log files that may be of use? I've been looking at the junk mail log in debug mode in SA and also in terminal but there's so many lines per mail it's difficult to see what's going on. I can't see anything different from one mail to the next...
Thanks

I would have expected to see X-Spam-Flag: NO and the spam score and such. Are these lines hidden if a mail does not trigger the threshold.
You need to edit /etc/amavisd.conf and set:
$satag_leveldeflt = -999;
This will make sure all mails get the headers inserted.
Also make sure that "@bypassspam_checksmaps = (1); " is commented out.
That said, the Bayesian filter will need to be fed at least 200 HAM and 200 SPAM messages before it kicks in.
Each time you modify settings in amavisd.conf, you need to restart amavisd by issuing:
sudo /bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
sudo /bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
HTH,
Alex
P.S. When you make changes in Postfix' configuration files, simply issue "sudo postfix reload" to make the m stick. No need to stop Postfix (BTW: That article you linked to is full of inaccuracies).

Junk Mail Filtering wont launch - displays Unknown

As of yesterday junk mail filtering will not launch when the mail service is running. On the Overview window it displays:
Mail Service : Running
Outgoing SMTP : Running
etc
Junk Mail Filtering : Unknown
This is Leopard Server 10.5.7 running on an Xserve G5 with 2.5GB.
The other strange thing is that when viewing the logs, all the logs are visible and displayed except for the Junk Mail/Virus Scanning, which displays Not Available at the top of the window and 'The selected log file does not exist' across the middle of the window.
I have tried in the Maintenance section to Reconstruct all the mailbox accounts and also Repair under the Database tab to no avail. Have also confirmed that the /var/virusmails/ directory is empty.
Would appreciate any help on this, but am a novice so would be very grateful for quite specific instructions.
Thanks a lot,
Stephen

David, Thanks a lot for your help, but unfortunately this didn't seem to do anything. Here is the results of what you suggested:
xserve1:~ admin$ sudo chown -R amavisd:amavisd /var/amavis
xserve1:~ admin$ ls -l /var/amavis
total 16
-rw-r----- 1 _amavisd _amavisd 0 5 Aug 14:11 amavisd.lock
srwxr-x--- 1 _amavisd _amavisd 0 5 Aug 13:51 amavisd.sock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 _amavisd _amavisd 484 19 Jan 2009 amavisd_cleanup
drwxr-xr-x 9 _amavisd _amavisd 306 5 Aug 13:51 db
drwxr-xr-x 126 _amavisd _amavisd 4284 5 Aug 14:11 tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 _amavisd _amavisd 3 27 Sep 2007 whitelist_sender
xserve1:~ admin$ amavisd
WARN: running under user '501' (UID=501), the config file specifies $daemonuser='amavisd' (UID=83)
Failed to open log file /var/log/amavis.log: Permission denied at /usr/bin/amavisd line 1590.
xserve1:~ admin$
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Stephen

How to set up junk mail filtering in mac mail

Is there a new way to set up junk mail filtering? I have been getting an increased amount of junk mail which the filter seems to allow through. Also, when I select emails and mark them as junk, when I delete them, they "reappear" still marked as junk. Really weird. But I will have to delete them several times for them to disappear out of my IN box. Not sure if this is due to a string of them coming in at once.
any advice out there?

You may find these articles from Apple support helpful.
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19190?locale=en_US
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19115?locale=en_US

Junk Mail Filtering????

This isn't working on iPhone 6 or MBA. Software updates have been informed on both devices.
Am I correct in saying that you have designate the mail as junk on my MBA and then that filters throught to the iPhone?
Many thanks

Hi wyliss,
If you are having an issue with junk mail not being removed properly, I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
Mail (Yosemite): If junk mail filters aren’t working correctly
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Junk Mail filtering possible when there is no "From" or "Subject"???

I have been getting a number of messages where the "From","Subject", and message body are blank Fields. I have marked all of these, and they're irritatingly frequent, as junk and left them in the junk mail folder for weeks... but they have yet to be re-directed automatically by the filter. I have had really good luck w/ my filter thus far.
Unfortunately, I cant find a 'condition' in the filters that would address this.
Mail will not let you leave the text field blank... Is there some string I can use to get past this?

Mail's Junk filter is based on an analysis of the content of the message. Since these messages have (apparently) no content, there is nothing to analyze, so it is not surprising that the filter doesn't learn to recognize them. Incidentally, the analysis -- and any "learning" -- is done at the time the message is filtered. Leaving the message in the Junk folder for weeks won't do any good. The only reason to have messages in the Junk folder is so that you can review them and rescue any that landed there by mistake. Once you are satisfied that everything there is really junk, you can delete them.
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Junk mail filtering service is blocking the server activities

Very dears all,
I am a young ADC Selected Membership (while I am mature as person, with my 54 years old!) and I am used to run the new release as soon I have it available for download. This I did also for 10.5.7 (while I am now ready to start the Snow testing) but after a while I had a strange loose of reaction of the server every 8 minutes.
I checked that the problem come from junk mail filtering service so that when I activate it the server activities are blocked once every 7..8 minutes (the server is unresponsive).
I checked that the amavis.log is full of messages in every slice of time (about 50 messages for each slice). Moreover, the slice are every tenth of a second!
I have not found clear indication neither on "AppleMacOsX_Command_Line_Adminv10.5" nor on "MailService_Admin_v10.5_2ndEd".
How to check for the cause of the blocking?
Many thanks,
Carmine

Very dear pterobyte,
I am not sure but the server should have been started on Leopard! Is is there a way to check it?
Consider that the junkmail filter has been working OK before it was upgraded to the latest releases for 1.5.7 (let's say before the mid of April). It was progressively shorting both the unresponsive duration and the cycling between unresponsive. So that yesterday I had to switch off the junkmail filtering, after I detected it was the cause.
I have now restarted the junkmail filter and here You can see the related answer to the command You asked me (first line is when it was off, then one line every 5 seconds, till answer is repeated):
server:~ root# ps U _amavisd
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
server:~ root# ps U _amavisd
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
77287 ?? Ss 0:00.92 /usr/bin/perl -T /usr/bin/amavisd foreground
77293 ?? Ss 0:02.89 clamd
server:~ root# ps U _amavisd
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
77287 ?? Us 0:01.35 amavisd (master)
77293 ?? Ss 0:02.89 clamd
server:~ root# ps U _amavisd
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
77287 ?? Ss 0:02.52 amavisd (master)
77293 ?? Ss 0:02.89 clamd
77485 ?? S 0:00.02 amavisd (virgin child)
77486 ?? S 0:00.02 amavisd (virgin child)
server:~ root# ps U _amavisd
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
77287 ?? Ss 0:02.52 amavisd (master)
77293 ?? Ss 0:02.89 clamd
77485 ?? R 0:02.88 amavisd (ch1-77485-01)
77486 ?? S 0:00.02 amavisd (virgin child)
77495 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /sbin/launchd
server:~ root# ps U _amavisd
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
77287 ?? Ss 0:02.52 amavisd (master)
77293 ?? Ss 0:02.89 clamd
77485 ?? S 0:08.47 amavisd (ch1-avail)
77486 ?? S 0:00.29 amavisd (ch1-avail)
77495 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /sbin/launchd
server:~ root# ps U _amavisd
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
77287 ?? Ss 0:02.52 amavisd (master)
77293 ?? Ss 0:02.89 clamd
77485 ?? S 0:08.47 amavisd (ch1-avail)
77486 ?? S 0:00.91 amavisd (ch2-avail)
77495 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /sbin/launchd
server:~ root#
Thanks for Your patience,
Carmine

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