Is junk mail the same as bulk mail?
I'm a bit concerned that I'm missing e-mails as sometimes it said it is downloading 6 messages for example and only 3 seem to appear. I don't have a junk e-mail folder to check. I have bulk e-mail which are kind of junk, but do any go anywhere else? Someone said on another discussion go to mail - preferences - enable junk mail filtering. This says that I have junk mail filtering. But when I tried to tick it to move to a junk mail folder it said 'Depending on how you have set your Mailbox Behaviors preferences in the Accounts pane of Mail Preferences, messages in the Junk mailbox might be deleted automatically.' When I look at this option the 'store junk mail on the server' option is unchecked. Does this mean that some messages are being deleted and not stored. I do get some messages which mail tells me it has designated as junk and asks me to confirm.
I just don't want to be losing important things. What is the best way to have this all set up?
Thank you, Rachel
I now seem to have a Junk folder so I guess my problem is solved, even though I have no idea how.
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I'm having trouble with Apple Mail. So much so in fact, that I'm ready to switch over to Entourage instead.
I used to love how far advanced Mail's junk filter was over the competition. It rarely produced false positives (tagging good mail as junk), at the same time, catching most of my junk mail. Recently however, so many legitimate emails are being tagged as junk. I find myself sifting through my junk mail filter after each check of my email, which sort of eliminates the usefulness of a filter in the first place. Messages from online vendors, in particular, are getting tagged as spam. Every online order I place, every eBay transaction, even messages from my bank, it's over the top. Every time I discover one of these false positives, I tell mail that it's not junk and move it to my Inbox before deleting it. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be helping.
I'd really like to keep using Apple Mail. Any advice on how to prevent false positives would be appreciated. Is there an easy way to create a whitelist?
Thanks in advance,
DaveSpam doesn't get directed to your email address out of thin air.
When a spammer uses HTML that must be rendered from a remote server and you allow the HTML to be rendered, you are notifiying the spammer that your email address is "known good" causing more spam to be received.
Selecting a "remove me" link included with spam does no such thing and alerts the spammer that your email address is "known good" causing more spam to be received.
Using an email address in a public internet forum or providing it out in the open in any public manner on the internet will cause that email address to receive spam.
The email address used for online shopping is suspectible to spam depending on the merchant's privacy policies. Some state they take your privacy seriously when they do not.
Are any of these email addresses used for online shopping - namely with your iCloud account?
HTML included with spam rendered with any of these addresses - namely with your iCloud account?
Google has an excellent spam filter at the server level, but I can't say the same about Yahoo.
If someone is a regular Mail app user on a Mac with the included junk mail filter trained well along with accessing an IMAP account, it is a viable option to leave the Mail app on their Mac launched and running for junk mail to be filtered by the Mail app on their Mac. This will be reflected with accessing the account on a mobile device as well that doesn't have a junk mail filter. -
Is there any way to use the Yahoo! Bulk folder as the Mail "Junk" folder?
I've been helping a few people with Yahoo! accounts and they'd like to use the Yahoo! "Bulk Mail" folder as their "Junk" folder so they don't have to select the messages in their Bulk folder in order to delete them with Apple Mail.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a way; you can tell Mail to use the Yahoo! Bulk Mail folder for Junk all day, but it never "takes."I have several Yahoo! accounts, as well, and have a similar issue. No solution for me.
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How do i delete or empty all the messages in my junk email at the same time without having to mark each message?
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
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...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist. -
On the iPhone, if you move an e-mail from the In box to Junk, will iPhone automatically place future e-mails from the same sender into Junk? In other words, can you teach iPhone to filter out Junk as you do on a Mac?
I don't think so, you would need to set that on your browser when you log into your email account.
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I need help in deleting my junk mail/bulk mail...when I dump junk mail and bulk mail into the trash it not allowing me to delete all mail only some. HELP!!
What program are you using? And what version?
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How can I delete ALL of my junk mail at the same time?
Hello I need some help!
I could not check my e-mail for a week and now I have nearly 600 junk mail on my mail box.
I am too busy to delete the junk mail one by one.
Mac wizard, please tell me how to delete all the junk mail at once!Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
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...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
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/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist. -
What is with all the Junk Mail in .mac?????
I have had .mac for a very long time now and can't believe the amount of Junk mail I am receiving? I assumed (bad thing to do) that .mac was a bit more secure than this??? If I want to change my .mac address and do the arduous changes to all connected to my address... can I? Does anyone know if you can change out of your current address and get a new one during your year of subscription?
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G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2-23" Cinema HD displays, 4 Lacie drives 1.3 TerrabytesCopied from How .Mac filters spam.
The .Mac mail servers filter spam, but some unwanted messages may still get through.
No single strategy is completely effective when it comes to managing Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), also known as "spam". People who are intent on sending spam are ingenious at coming up with ways around any filtration schemes.
Also, check Why was I "spammed" at my .Mac Mail address?
You can contact the administrator of the domain that sent the spam. It is likely that the actions of the spammer are a violation of the Internet service provider's (ISP) Acceptable Use Policy. You can also report any spam to .Mac system administrators by sending the message along with full source headers to [email protected] A .Mac administrator will examine the message and headers. If the message is verified to be spam, that message will be filtered at the server before it reaches your mailbox. -
Having a hard time deleting two junk mail messages! I press edit , I check the message, I try to delete and a screen message appears telling me the message cannot be removed! Not sure what to do here! Please advise?
Did you try swiping across the message in the preview window rather than use the Edit button? If you still can't delete the messages, quite mail and reboot the iPad and try again.
Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the recents tray will appear with all of your recent apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar.
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My daughter has had her Razr for about 9 months now. About two weeks ago she picked up her phone in the morning on her way to school when she noticed two cracks, both starting at the camera lens. One goes completely to the bottom and the other goes sharply to the side. She has never dropped it and me and my husband went over it with a fine tooth comb. We looked under a magnifying glass and could no find any reason for the glass to crack. Not one ding, scratch or bang. Our daughter really takes good care of her stuff, but we still wanted to make sure before we sent it in for repairs. Well we did and we got a reply from Motorola with a picture of the cracks saying this was customer abuse and that it is not covered under warranty. Even though they did not find any physical damage to back it up. Well I e-mailed them back and told them I did a little research and found pages of people having the same problems. Well I did not hear from them until I received a notice from Fed Ex that they were sending the phone back. NOT FIXED!!! I went to look up why and guess what there is no case open any more for the phone. It has been wiped clean. I put in the RMA # it comes back not found, I put in the ID #, the SN# and all comes back not found. Yet a day earlier all the info was there. I know there is a lot more people like me and all of you, but they just don't want to be bothered so they pay to have it fix, just to have it do it again. Unless they have found the problem and only fixing it on a customer pay only set up. I am furious and will not be recommending this phone to anyone. And to think I was considering this phone for my next up grade! NOT!!!!
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Sometime, when I send an email with my Mac Book Pro, i receive the message:
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Someone can help me?
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Can I stop the same Mail returning after deleting ?
I acn't seem to stop the same mail returning time after time. There are about 10 items of various previous dates that cme back from 'MAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM' - Delivery Status Notification (failure)...
I have tried, Bouncing, deleting and marking it JUNK but they reappear in my INBOX almost immediately.
I have also noticed that recently I am having to Force Quit MAIL very much more often.
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Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
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 these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot. -
Help! I've received at least 30 of the same mail message!
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Will Mail ever be the same again?
There are lots of other threads about specific issues. I want to ask the über questions ...
There seems to be a plague of nightmares with Mail.app and/or Address Book under 10.6. I'm continuing to get the duplication issues when using POP. Someone suggested switching to IMAP, so I tried that ... only to find that Mail's dysfunctionality with IMAP made the POP issues look minor! Mail made such a hash of my e-mail on IMAP that I simply can't afford to stick with it for long enough to try out the range of possible fixes. (And I tried heaps of them a month ago in 10.6.2, with no success.) I could list off some examples, but I don't know where to start. It's simply flat broken as far as I can tell. My experience of using Mail pre-SL was just first class - and it can't have remained consistently blocks ahead in popularity over every other mac e-mail client, for nothing.
Does anyone have any idea whether Apple are really on top of the issue. We're now at 10.6.3, and nothing seems to have changed in my experience. Every OS update has mentioned various improvements to Mail in the release notes, so they're obviously working on Mail in some way. But all I know is that I've now had several months of tedious workarounds several times a day, just to deal with my e-mail. I have a bunch of Applescript-based functions that I rely on for organising my e-mail, and it would take me an age to reconfigure all that for another client. And wouldn't you think that Apple's own built-in client would be the last one to have these kinds of issues?
Frustrating .. infuriating .. all the words have been used before. Are we going to see an end to this? .. Does anyone have any clues that it will actually be fixed??!!OK, well let's just agree to disagree on the question of whether I'm merely ranting or not. Here are the specifics ...
Background
I have 3 accounts:
• my main one with Mail.com, which has recently switched to using the AOL servers (so it could be described as an AOL account +in effect+ ). I use this for nearly everything.
• my ISP e-mail account with OptusNet (Australia)
• a Gmail account, which I basically use for spam reporting
I've had the former two unchanged for 10 years, and I added the Gmail one about 4 years ago.
Until just the past month I've only ever used POP for all these accounts. It's worked largely flawlessly for years through successive OSX versions, starting from 10.2.
I began trying out IMAP a month ago at a friend's suggestion, with the Mail.com & Optusnet accounts but not the Gmail. I haven't seriously used IMAP so don't know a lot about it. Tried it twice in the past few weeks, both times with bad results - so switched back to POP. Having finally figured out what IMAP is and does, I would like to use it in future, rather than POP. But it's not a functional possibility just now (due to the issues I'm raising here ... )
_E-mail software_
I use a combination of Mail.app, Purify (for spam filtering & reporting) & a bunch of Applescripts that link the two. I've been using that combination at least since 10.4 days - again largely flawlessly. In the most recent versions of Purify incoming mail is processed as follows: Get Messages with Mail.app >> a rule triggers an Applescript >> the script sends the message(s) to Purify >> Purify rates them as HAM or SPAM >> the script sends spams to junk box.
I've only ever had Mail configured to delete downloaded messages from server immediately.
_Developments since installing 10.6_
POP
As soon as I upgraded to 10.6.0 I (along with a sizeable minority of others) began getting huge numbers of duplicate messages. In my case it happened with the Mail.com & Optusnet accounts, but never the Gmail. It happened with all spam and many ham messages, seemingly randomly.
Attempted solutions:
• restart Mail
• restart computer
• repair permissions
• rebuild mailboxes
• delete and recreate POP accounts
• delete file "MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3" (including an Automator script to do this every hour)
• trash file "com.apple.mail.plist" and re-configure settings
.... Some of these made no difference at all. Others would fix the issue for up to a day, but then it would be back.
Eventually, with help from this forum, I identified the best workaround:
• after every mail download, select "Get account info" for each account
• select any messages already-downloaded (but still on the server with blue dots beside them)
• click button "remove from server"
... Works, but very tedious
Then came 10.6.2 ... After that, a lot of (but still not all) other people seemed to have the issue resolved. That was not my experience. However I did note that it now happened exclusively with messages rated by Purify as spam (and therefore moved to the junk box). Still with Mail.com & Optusnet accounts, and still not with Gmail. The same continues now with 10.6.3 - no change.
IMAP
As I said above, I just started trying out IMAP at a friend's suggestion. But it just hasn't worked at all, so both times I've reverted back to POP very quickly. I tried it once about a month ago, and once again just yesterday after the 10.6.3 update. From a bit of googling, it does appear a lot of other folks are having big issues with IMAP since moving to 10.6. My particular issues:
• horrendously slow processing, with beachballing and resulting need to force quit
• Applescript timeouts attempting to run Purify filtering
• new messages disappearing entirely
• taking forever to rebuild mailboxes (and still not right when done)
• mailboxes out of sync with server ( e.g. 'good' messages appearing in inbox in webmail, but in junkbox in Mail)
... In short, totally unuseable (and that's not an exaggeration)
Message was edited by: Lance Lawton
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