Flagging Mail As Junk

Well, Apple seems intent on becoming as difficult to use and as convoluted as anything MicroSoft has ever created.
On my iPad 2, I can't flag an email as junk. That's right,mi get junk mail, but I can't actually FLAG it as junk because Apple, like Microsoft knows better and has apparently decided that it is bad for me, an adult who can afford to buy their products, to decide what mail is junk. So, THEY chose what is junk and what isn't and, apparently, if I don't like it, tough toenails because Apple is smarter than me.

I mean this in jest, but just had to take this opportunity to let you know that since you didn't know that flagging of email as junk is a function of your mail service (as pjl correctly stated above) and not Apple (how could it be, when Apple is only providing a mirror of your mail from your mail service?) that your comment about Apple being smarter than you is likely true!
Again, only in jest........

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Is there a way to flag mail as junk that contains a certain attachment?
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Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
I am not sure what type of attachment you mean by "certain", but one example is discussed in the topic at the link below, and may be of interest:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2825196&#2825196
Ernie

Mail says my e-mail is junk

I have a rule that the domain @test.com is OK so everything that comes from this domain is not junk.
I get e-mail from this domain and mail always flags it as junk. How can I get the "rules" to accept that anything from this domain is OK?
The rule says If any of the following conditions are met
FROM - Contains - "@test.com"
Perform the following actions
Move Message to Inbox
HELP

I just checked there. Thanks for the tip. The following box is checked "The following Types of Messages are exempt from junk mail filtering: Sender of message is in my Address Book".
Why didn't this option get executed?

Can I flag email as JUNK myself? How?

With Mavericks not very good identifying Junk emails, is there a way (a button) I can click to make an email "junk" when Mail doesn't do it?

Thanks for your input Barney, but I realise how Smart Mailboxes work. I think you misunderstood my explanation.
What I am saying is that the Junk mail button in the toolbar performs differently when clicked on a message that is selected in a Smart Mailbox to when clicked on a message that is selected in the Mail Inbox.
Clicking on a message selected in a Smart Mailbox merely flags the message as junk, but does not move it. Clicking on the same message selected in the Mail Inbox both flags it as junk and moves it to the Junk mailbox.
This is a different behaviour in Mavericks. As I explained, I have an "UNREAD" Smart Mailbox set up to bring together all my unread mail. Previous to Mavericks, marking a message as junk mail in this Smart Mailbox (using the toolbar button) moved it to the Junk mailbox. In Mavericks, this no longer works. But it does work if the message is being viewed from the Inbox (rather than via a Smart Mailbox).
FYI I have reindexed all my mail folders several times since 'upgrading' to Mavericks.

Flag email as junk...pointless task!

why do I still get Dr Oz miracle cure junk mail after I've flag it as junk everyday

Thanks for your input Barney, but I realise how Smart Mailboxes work. I think you misunderstood my explanation.
What I am saying is that the Junk mail button in the toolbar performs differently when clicked on a message that is selected in a Smart Mailbox to when clicked on a message that is selected in the Mail Inbox.
Clicking on a message selected in a Smart Mailbox merely flags the message as junk, but does not move it. Clicking on the same message selected in the Mail Inbox both flags it as junk and moves it to the Junk mailbox.
This is a different behaviour in Mavericks. As I explained, I have an "UNREAD" Smart Mailbox set up to bring together all my unread mail. Previous to Mavericks, marking a message as junk mail in this Smart Mailbox (using the toolbar button) moved it to the Junk mailbox. In Mavericks, this no longer works. But it does work if the message is being viewed from the Inbox (rather than via a Smart Mailbox).
FYI I have reindexed all my mail folders several times since 'upgrading' to Mavericks.

Various E Mail problems: Junk Mail, Log Off, etc

I am having various and frustrating problems that are intermittant.
I have two incoming e mail accounts, one is IMAP and one is POP.
1. Junk Mail. After having reset my junk mail settings as advised on this site just a few days ago, I am continuing to experience this problem. Messages that the systems "knows" is Junk Mail do NOT go to Junk Mail folder, but to the regular In box. It knows they are Junk Mail because the Tab for changing the message at top of screen says "Not Junk", which means it thinks it is JUNK. They why won't it go into Junk Mail folder?
2. When I try to delete these messages one by one in In box, the computer "freezes" and takes forever to delete the messages. The In box counter on left hand side of the screen does not decrease as I delete messages, but takes a long time (minutes) to catch up with the deletions.
3. When receiving certain e mail from specific recipients, the system intermittantly says "message not dowloaded from server, you need to take this account on line". Well. it IS online! Again, this does not happen all the time, but often enough and from the same e mail recipients) that it is very frustrating.
4. Oftentimes when I try to shut down, I get the dreaded spinning color wheel, only to have to force quit. This is a lengthy process, and then I lose all of the deletions that I have tried to make to my Inbox.
Are all of these problems somehow related? Cumulatively, they are very frustrating. I never had these kinds of issues with Windows Mail apps. Uuughh!
Thanks for reading and any assistance.

There appears to be a problem with the index.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and ensuring that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move the “IMAP-” account folder to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folder, that accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring it back online.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.
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If the problem persists, what are your Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Junk settings, particularly for the IMAP account?
Also, what have you done to “reset [your] junk mail settings as advised on this site”? This is what I’d suggest:
1. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, disable junk mail filtering, then enable it again. This resets the rule that governs what the junk filter does.
2. Choose either Training or Automatic mode (it doesn’t matter) and leave the other options checked. Click Advanced to see how the junk filter rule is defined now if you want, but don’t touch anything there.
3. Reset the junk filter database (Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset).
4. Open Window > Previous Recipients and get rid of any addresses that you don’t want Mail to treat as legit.

Ios 7 flagged mail count is 25695 but there are no messages in flagged mailbox

There are no messages in this iPhone in any of the mailboxes (including trash) yet the flagged mail count is over 25000, and the mail app is using over 2.6GB

Check or Empty your trash folders.

Wanted mail being junked

Live mail has a habit of junking mail that I wanted to receive, and over Christmas a whole batch of mail has not come through. I try and check the junk mail section - but it takes time to log in and check, which I don't always have. I usually
read all my mail through Outlook Express which my wife really likes, and I have tuned to do what I want.
I have just had a mail message to say that a particular sender couldn't get through to me. So what I really need, and I suspect others do as well, is a way of me deciding whether mail is junk or not. I am very happy with Live mail putting them
in to a Junk folder - but not for them to be then deleted before I have checked!!!!
Does anyone know of a way to set this up? I have reported to Microsoft, but sadly they only seem to listen when a big noise is made.
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Connected to 65.55.92.168 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 550 OU-002 (SNT0-MC3-F51) Unfortunately, messages from 205.209.57.137 weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to
http colon // mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.

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HT1277 How do I make Mail remove junk/deleted messages from the server? The only option tht works for me now is the "Remove from server" button at Account Info Messages on server.

How do I make Mail remove junk/deleted messages from the server? The only option tht works for me now is the "Remove from server" button at Account Info > Messages on server. What am I doing wrong?

Mail > Preferences… > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server after retrieving a message

How can you tag mail as junk on my iphone?

How can you tag mail as junk on my iphone?

If you have updated to iOS7, this is incorrect.
To mark and file your mail as junk on iPhone, do this:
When looking in your mailbox at the list of emails:
1. Choose the email you wish to send to Junk (do not open it)
2. Swipe it to the left.
You will see on the right 2 choices: Trash or More.
3. Choose More
Now you will see the choice to move it to Junk. When you do this it will create a Junk folder for that mailbox.

Apple mail marks every last e-mail as junk

been using it for years and worked fine. then, one day, it just started marking every last e-mail as junk. i have a .mac e-mail address. please help.

You’re welcome.
Note that just clicking the Reset button won’t fix the problem. What causes the problem is not a corrupt junk database, but rather a corrupt junk filter rule, which can often be fixed by just disabling the junk filter, then enabling it again.
Resetting the junk database is meant to get rid of any wrong information that may have been stored there as a side effect of you manually marking messages as junk or not junk while the filter was behaving erratically.

ICloud falsely marks some mail as junk

iCloud Mail has started classifying all email I receive from Second Life as junk. Those email are marked as junk and move to the iCloud Junk folder.
I would rather filter my email on my iMac.
I have tried "training" iCloud Mail by logging into the web interface and manually clicking Not Junk. I read that this would stop marking email from that address as junk. However, the return addresses are 'tokenized' ([email protected]im.agni.lindenl ab.com) so the next message from that person will have a different address.
I don't see any setting to whitelist the domain (@im.agni.lindenlab.com) or to disable junk mail filtering altogether in iCloud.

Try the following first.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail and deselect "Enable junk mail filtering".
Quit and re-launch the Mail.app.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail and reselect "Enable junk mail filtering".
FYI - the Junk Filter learns in the same way regardless if set to Training or Automatic and continues to learn when set to Automatic if working properly.
I would also switch Junk Mail from Training to Automatic and after doing so, go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences (for each account), there is an "Erase messages in the junk mailbox when:" selection.
Setting Junk Mail to Automatic will provide a Junk folder in the mailboxes drawer below the Trash folder. An account named Junk mailbox under Junk will be created automatically by Mail for each account that has previously received a message that was automatically or manually marked as junk.
When set to Automatic, any message that is automatically marked as junk when received will be automatically transferred to the account's Junk mailbox getting this garbage out of the account's Inbox mailbox. You can set each account's Junk mailbox to be automatically deleted after one day or one week as desired to give you adequate time to check the Junk mailbox for any valid messages that were incorrectly marked as junk when received marking any valid messages as not junk and moving such a message back to the account's Inbox mailbox.
Keep in mind that purging each account's Junk mailbox after a reasonable period of time aids in the Junk Mail "learning" process.

Trash, Sent mail, and Junk mail folders do not work

I just switched from my entourage email to mac's mail, and I noticed some problems that I cannot seem to figure out. I amm using IMAP based email, and had none of these problems on entourage, but I like the format of mail better, so i hope to get this resolved so I can keep using mail.
1. Trash- When I delete an email it does not go to the trash folder like it did in entourage, but rather just disappears and I cannot find it anywhere. This is regardless of if I try and store it on the server or not. Either way, the deleted messages disappear.
2. Sent mail- I may know why this is not working, at least I have heard a possible explanation. When I send an email, it will not go to the default sent-mail folder on my IMAP server, and so disappears unless I tell mail not to store them on the server (but there are obvious disadvantages to not having the mail stored on the server). I think this has to do with the fact that the sent mail folder on my IMAP client has to be set to sent-mail, while I hear Mail requires it to be just Sent.
3. Junk mail- When I mark messages as junk mail, the program does not move them to the junk mail folder, neither in mail nor on the IMAP server.
Now I have gone through as many of the options I can find to try and resolve this, but I have it all set up the same way I did in entourage, and cannot figure out why it is not working. Does it have to do with the naming of the folders for my IMAP service? Those seem to be default and unable to change. My Trash is labeled "trash", Sent mail is labeled "sent-mail", and junk mail is labeled "Junk".
I appreciate any help.

1. When not stored on the server, the account's Trash mailbox should be located under the Trash icon in the mailboxes drawer if "Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox" is selected under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences.
If you have this selected, using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes. Within the Mailboxes folder should be a folder named
Deleted Messages (name of your IMAP account in parenthesis).mbox
Confirm the folder includes the .mbox extension.
2. When you select "Store sent messages on the server", select your IMAP account's Sent mailbox under your IMAP account's icon in the mailboxes drawer which is sent-mail and at the menu bar, go to Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For and select Sent.
3. Do you have Junk Mail set to Automatic?

Cannot Mark Mail As Junk

For some reason, I cannot mark mail as junk on my MacPro - using 10.10.2 Yosemite. The junk mail icon in the toolbar is grayed out and if I control click on a message and select the mark option the option to mark as junk is grayed out. I also have an iMac the mail app seems to be working correctly on that computer - the junk mail icon is not grayed out and I can mark a mail as junk. Both computers are on the same version of Yosemite.
Thanks

You are welcome! Credit sterling r

Why can't I mark mail as Junk?

Why can't I mark mail as Junk? in Yosemite 10.10, Why is thumbs down icon greyed out and not selectable? what setting do I need to change?

Apparently you do.
Let them know:
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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