"Erase messages in the junk mailbox when:..." not working

Option to "Erase messages in the junk mailbox when:..." not working.
I have this set in all accounts to "one day old", but junk mail in the Junk Mailbox older than one day still appears. When I re-select this option under the accounts pref's, junk mail older than one day is properly deleted, but after a day it's back to not deleting anymore!
I've deleted the Mail pref file, etc, but still no luck.
Any ideas?

Well, the Mailbox Behaviors settings are specific for each account, and the On My Mac Junk mailbox isn’t associated with any mail account, so there appears to be no way to specify such setting for that particular mailbox.
The thing is, the whole situation you’re describing doesn’t really make sense. If those messages end up in the On My Mac Junk mailbox, that means you’re manually marking them as junk after they’ve been moved to a custom “On My Mac” mailbox, which makes me believe what’s really happening here is not that many messages aren’t caught by the junk filter. What appears to be happening is that you have custom rules that prevent the junk filter from being able to catch them...

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Mailbox behaviors: Erase messages in the junk mailbox

For each of my POP accounts, I have the Mailbox behaviors setting for junk mail set to "erase messages in the junk mailbox when one day old." This works fine for any mail which the mail filter catches and sends to the junk mailbox. However, many junk e-mails are not caught, so I click on the "Junk" button, to designate those e-mails as junk. At that time, they automatically move to the Junk mailbox. But within the junk mailbox are sub-boxes for each of my POP accounts, and another sub-box called "On my Mac." That's where the e-mails end up that I mark as junk, and they remain there forever. How do I tell Mail to automatically erase that junk mail after one day (or on whatever schedule I desire)?
iMac PowerMac 6,1 CPU: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Mac OS X (10.4.8) Mail v2.1
466 MHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Well, the Mailbox Behaviors settings are specific for each account, and the On My Mac Junk mailbox isn’t associated with any mail account, so there appears to be no way to specify such setting for that particular mailbox.
The thing is, the whole situation you’re describing doesn’t really make sense. If those messages end up in the On My Mac Junk mailbox, that means you’re manually marking them as junk after they’ve been moved to a custom “On My Mac” mailbox, which makes me believe what’s really happening here is not that many messages aren’t caught by the junk filter. What appears to be happening is that you have custom rules that prevent the junk filter from being able to catch them...

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Have you attempted a restore?

The junk mailbox could not be created on the mail server

I'm getting this error message on a few of my clients. Mail.app doesn't seem to want or is not able to create a mailbox on the imap server. I can manually create a whole bunch of folders but for some reason it won't create the junk mail folder. I can't find any errors in the cyrus logs that would indicate a problem with creating the mailbox. It insist on creating a local mailbox for SPAM but i'm not interested.
Any ideas? Google search as well as this forum have come up empty...

I think I just figured this out -- unfortunately, I don't have a solution. I'm having the same problem trying to create the junk mail folder on the server, so I fired up WireShark (a network sniffer) to see if that would reveal anything. Sure enough, it looks like Mail.app is trying to use an invalid name when creating the mailbox. When I try and move a message into the Junk mail folder, here's the IMAP transaction I get, my notes are in brackets:
[... truncated ...]
13.3 CLOSE [Mail.app -> Server]
13.3 OK Completed [Server -> Mail.app]
14.3 CREATE "Junk (Corp Mail Server)" [Mail.app -> Server]
14.3 NO Invalid mailbox name [Server -> Mail.app]
15.3 SUBSCRIBE "Junk (Corp Mail Server)" [Mail.app -> Server]
15.3 NO Subscribe: Mailbox does not exist [Server -> Mail.app]
16.3 LIST "" "Junk (Corp Mail Server)" [Mail.app -> Server]
16.3 OK Completed (0.000 secs 1 calls) [Server -> Mail.app]
17.3 NAMESPACE [Mail.app -> Server]
[... truncated ...]
It looks to me like it's trying to use the name of my mail profile in the name of the Junk folder, and I bet the IMAP doesn't like the (parens) ... looks like a bug to me.
Hope that helps
Swannie

I, too, have a problem with storage of duplicate messages. The 'repair' facility did not work ....

Three times I used the 'repair' button but nothing changed.

Could we have that in English please!
Repair rebuilds the index for messages, but as I completely fail to understand your subject so I have nothing to go on other than the repair button does not fix your issue, what ever that is.

The sent mailbox could not be created on the mail server.

Complete message says:
The sent mailbox could not be created on the mail server. The local "Sent Messages (mail)" mailbox was created instead. Mail has changed your account's Mailbox Behaviors preferences to use the local "Sent Messages (mail)" mailbox.
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Junk filter is not working properly

I have been using the Junk mail filter successfully for years. Lately Mail is marking messages as Junk but still leaving some of them in my Inbox, though it is supposed to send all junk to the Junk mailbox. Also it is sending some messages to the Junk mailbox, even when they are in my Address Book and even some emails from Apple and .Mac. Why is this happening?
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Hi, I'm having the same problem! If I send myself a test message it comes back as junk and my name is in my address book. I have my preferences set for anyone who is in my address book is ok and the rest is junk.
I read this and did all that was written below yet my mail program still thinks my own test message is junk. Does anyone have another suggestion?
This forum is awesome, thanks.
Martha
Why? The junk filter itself knows nothing about
Apple. When you set up Mail anew, there is only one
custom rule called “News From Apple” that, if active,
would prevent those messages from being marked as
junk. If you’ve removed or disabled that rule (I
have), then messages coming from Apple are treated
like messages coming from anyone else, as it should
be.
Or is it because "Apple Discussion Forums" isn't in
my address book?
Well, that’s one possibility. Another is that the
junk filter still isn’t working properly, and the
more thorough cleanup procedure I mentioned in my
previous post may be necessary.
Note also that having Sender of message is in my
Previous Recipients OFF in Preferences > Junk
Mail may contribute to some messages being
incorrectly marked as junk.
The junk filter cleanup procedure, in case you want
to try it, would be as follows:
1. Quit Mail.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/.
3. Locate LSMMap2 and move it to the Trash.
This file stores information about what does and
doesn’t constitute junk, and allows the junk filter
to learn. Deleting this file is what Preferences >
Junk Mail > Reset does. The file was called
LSMMap in early versions of Mail; delete that
as well if you see it.
4. Locate DefaultCounts and move it to the
Trash. This file keeps statistics about the number of
messages that have been marked as junk, either
automatically by the junk filter or manually by the
user.
5. Locate MessageRules.plist and/or
MessageSorting.plist and move it to the
Desktop. The former is used by Mail 2.x, the latter
by Mail 1.x. This is where Mail stores all the rules,
including the rule that governs what the junk filter
does. There is probably also a
MessageRules.plist.backup and/or
MessageSorting.plist.backup file there; move
it to the Desktop too.
6. Look for the account folders. The name of each
account folder starts with the account type (POP,
IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the
incoming mail server. Open each of the account
folders, locate the Junk.mbox or
Junk.imapmbox folder within it, and move it to
the Trash if present.
7. Go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. Locate any
Junk.mbox mailboxes there (their name may
include the account name in parenthesis), and move
them to the Trash.
Note: Messages in Junk mailboxes with an
.mbox suffix are stored locally and will be
lost forever as a result of doing steps 6 and 7. If
there is a chance that you have legit messages there
that you want to preserve, either move the messages
to another mailbox in Mail first, or move
Junk.mbox to the Desktop (to be imported back
later) instead of to the Trash. Junk mailboxes with
an .imapmbox suffix aren’t a concern because
they are stored on the server and Mail will rebuild
them automatically.
8. Open Mail. As a result of removing the rules file,
the junk filter will be disabled now. You may want to
either tell Mail to go offline immediately after
opening it, or shut down the Internet connection
before opening Mail, to prevent it from downloading
anything until the junk mail filter has been enabled
again.
9. Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail,
enable junk filtering, and configure it however you
wish.
10. Go online again if you went offline in step 8.
If the above solves the problem and you don’t have
any rules you’d like to preserve or recreating them
is not a daunting task, just trash the rules files
that were moved to the Desktop and be done with it.
Note: For those not familiarized with the
~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home
folder. You can easily locate any of the folders
referred to in this post by copying the folder path
here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder,
and pasting the folder path there.
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I cannot highlight more than one e-mail. I am concerned about this when I am in the Junk mailbox. I do not want to open any e-mails that are in this mailbox.

I cannot highlight more than one e-mail. I am concerned about this when I am in the Junk mailbox. I do not want to open any e-mails that are in this mailbox.

Two thoughts:
1. You never need to open any emails in the junk mailbox. You can simply do Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail from Mail's menu.
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I had a problem with the ports of the 2 accounts that I have set up in Mail (one of those is mac.com) due to an excess of space used. I tried several options and it finally it worked. As a result, a week later I realised that I was not receiving any mail into the Junk Mailbox... I don't know if it is related to the orher problem, maybe not.
Essentially I am no longer receiving any junk mail at all - and no mail that is even doubtful (ie from an unknown address). The mails are not showing up even online via MobileMe ... so I have no idea where they are!
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Mail does not move Junk mail to the Junk mailbox.

I use OS X 10.9.3, Mail Version 7.3 (1878.2) and have created the rule that if Message is Junk, Move it to the Junk mailbox, but it does not work. Junk messages remain in the Inbox, even after I select messages and Apply rules. I have tried marking and unmarking as Junk, and then they disappear, but this is obviously not a sustainable longterm solution. Any other suggestions?

Hi Jeff, are you saying the Inbox with Junk is inside the Junk Folder, or is this a different account?
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Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/IMAPaccount folder, move them where they should be in the Finder.
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Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
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Move this file to the Desktop...
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I have enabled junk mail filtering to move designated junk mail to junk mailbox when it arrives. But it no longer does so. Why not? I am using an iMac with version 10.10.1

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