Junk email and drafts

(two separate issues)
1 - i email sam mike and jim every day. very rarely one of their emails will end up in junk folder. why is this? it seems to happen randomly.. shrug.
2 - sometimes when i send a mail.. it gets sent ok but a copy remains in the draft box and only goes away if i delete the copy in my draft folder. people do in fact get the first copy cuz several times i thought they didnt get it - cuz it was sitting in draft - so i resent and then they complained they got it 2x.

I too have a similar problem. It seems that everybody who upgraded from an Exchange IMAP account has no problem setting the priority of their emails. Anyone who created a brand new Exchange account in Apple Mail from scratch, however, is in capable of setting the priority of their emails. I post this because I'm an administrator of the Macs at my school's library, and this is a very irksome problem for some. Please fix soon.

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I do not know how to get my emails and drafts out of Time Machine and onto my Apple drive.
Any help would be appreciated HUGELY!

Command-R to the rescue.
Just hold down Command-R during startup and Lion Recovery springs into action. It lets you choose from common utilities: You can run Disk Utility to check or repair your hard drive, erase your hard drive and reinstall a fresh copy of Lion, or restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup. You can even use Safari to get help from Apple Support online. And if Lion Recovery encounters problems, it will automatically connect to Apple over the Internet.
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Sent emails and draft folder

Dear sir/Madam,
Sent emails are being saved in my draft folder.
Everytime i send an email, the same is being saved in the draft folder.
Its very annoying : ( . Please help?
Thank you,
Mohaned

I have about one or two drafts per month that are "stuck" in the folder and must be deleted manually, and I'm on 10Mbit/s and pretty stable, but the mail server is playing its own role as well. Sometimes it just happens.
BTW, under Mailbox Behaviors in the account's preferences in Mail, make sure that "Store draft messages on the server" is unchecked. It seems to me that when it's enabled, the "delete" command in case of a new draft version or once sent makes it even less often through, eventually leading to a few more drafts remaining there - at least with my server. Could be just my "notion" but if it's okay with you to have drafts only locally and not e.g. synced with other devices or "backed up" on the server, then it won't hurt.

I use gmail. How do I block junk emails and spam or create filters to delete them

I Use an I pad and iPhone for gmail . how do I block spam and unwanted commercial emails. can I set filters as I do when using my MacBook Pro?
I don't see the same "more" bottom on these devices. Please help.

Arwav
deggie is 100% right, you must do it at gMail-webMail from a web browser. Your iPad will probably be easiest.
FYI, gMail is responsible for filtering SPAM. Your iDevices merely check your webMail's INBOX for unread messages. If SPAM gets there, it means gMail is not recognizing the messages as such. You should be able to block individual eMail addresses there as well, for the ones that are slipping through the cracks.
Hope this helps.
CCC
-- A motion to adjourn is always in order.

I received a "junk" email that I attempted to dispose of by sending it to "trash" and then deleting it from "trash". At that point, instead of deleting, it simply rotates back into "junk"--and over and over. How do I delete this unwanted email?

I received a "junk" email and attempted to dispose of it by sending it to "trash" and the deleting it from the trash file (the way I always do). This particular spam, however, instead simply rotates back into the "junk" file-- ad infinatum. How do I eliminate tis unwanted pest?

Try logging on to your email via the web browser (assuming the email account is gmail, yahoo, etc) and deleting the email from there. It could just be that the email program on the iPad is not properly synching with the web server so the email keeps re-downloading.

IMAP Email: Sent, Trash, and Draft folder behavior

I just did a fresh install of Snow Leopard where I'm unable to configure or sync the Sent, Trash, and Draft Folders in their specific top level sections. Although, I was able to successfully configure them in this way before I reinstalled Snow Leopard (currently running 10.6.6).
I had 3 IMAP accounts within three top level folder sections called Inbox (3 accounts), Sent (3 accounts), Draft (3 accounts), and Trash (3 accounts) where all email was stored/synced on the IMAP server hosted by my webhost.
After reinstalling Snow Leopard, I configured each account the same exact way where the Inbox folder was configured just fine on the top level but now the Sent, Draft, and Trash folders have now moved to the lower level "On My Mac" section where specific sections were created for each account (Example: (Account 1 - Sent, Draft, Trash). Although, I do see a Sent section in the top level with nothing in it.
When configuring the email, I selected to store sent email, drafts, and trash on the server. Path is currently set to INBOX. I really do not understand why Mail is creating separate lower level "On My Mac" sections and placing the Sent, Draft, and Trash folders in there.
I greatly appreciate any help or tips I can try to set my IMAP email the way I had it before.

Select the 'Sent' mailbox in the lower section, choose menu 'Mailbox' > 'Use this Mailbox for' > 'Sent'.
Repeat the procedure for the other mailboxes (drafts, junk, trash).

I can no longer send emails and my drafts folder no longer functions. How do I fix them?

I am using Windows XP. I have Mozilla Firefox 3.6. My Gmail account no longer can send emails and my Drafts folder is inoperable. I can see, save, discard, or edit anything in Drafts. This is only with my home pc. Any other computer (library, work..) does work. How do I fix this?
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Please read and begin using Can receive email, but not send email. I had a similar issue with Comcast mail (could receive by not send) and found my answer in this letter. For me it took resetting the outgoing mail and telling the system to use a password when sending outgoing mail. If you need help with that please advise and I'll tell you where to look.

I put an email into draft.When I opened it and tried to send the screen froze.

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Email seems to be sent, but it doesn't arrive. No 'unable to send' message, sent items and draft folders are empty. The mail disappears.

Email seems to be sent, but it doesn't arrive. No 'unable to send' message, sent items and draft folders are empty. The mail disappears. I tried to fully turn off the iPad and have it restart. But it doesn't go off. I keep seeing the small white 'turning wheel' untill the battery is gone. After that, it works again (and so does the e-mail). This happens about every week. What can I do?

*there's no reason to be paranoid*
Says Mulder .
Anyway, as I mentioned, I don't use any sync-able email, just a very plain-jane POP email provider. iSync reports no devices and has nothing in its log, which matches my never having installed anything in need of syncing.
The thing is, if Mail says its sending something when nothing was ever sent, that's a largish bug whether it is actually sending something or isn't, and there isn't really enough info here to know which of those are the case. Maybe Mail just displays "Sending" because an attempt to do something reasonable is timing out, maybe it does an innocuous and normal POP thing using very confusing nomenclature, or maybe it's really trying to send something which has a wrong flag or something. There isn't really enough info to know what is going on, so I was hoping someone could identify the symptoms.

I am using outlook 2013 for my emails. My junk emails get automatically deleted. I have had several people say they sent me emails and i can not find them. They are not in any of my inboxs. Can anyone please help

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am just not receving. It;s not in any of my inboxe. I am losing alot of important info and don't know why. Please help

If you suspect they are being marked as junk and deleted, turn off the auto-delete. Being that Office is a Microsoft product, you should ask them how to do that: http://www.microsoft.com/mac.

Why is it that I can't receive the email to reset my security questions and answers.. My email information is all accurate but I'm not receiving the email and I've even checked spam and junk folders.. Can someone please help me please???

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Just started getting about 300-400 emails per day from several fraudulent Addresses to my icloud email and am not sure how to stop receiving them, or create a rule to have them all go to Junk.When unsub, I get more. Emails from my contacts are now Junk?!

Just started getting about 300-400 emails per day from several fraudulent Addresses to my icloud email and am not sure how to stop receiving them, or create a rule to have them all go to Junk.When unsub, I get more. Emails from my contacts are now Junk?! How do I fix this? I have over 800 emails since 5Am YESTERDAY!

First, don't unsubscribe. This only tells the spammer that your email address is valid and they will send even more.
If this is only being sent from a few specific email addresses, you can set up a rules on icloud.com similar to the image below to send them to the trash. This describes how to set up a rule: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a3f8a.

IMAP email and the sent, drafts and trash folders

I am using Mail 2.1.3 and have set up my accounts to work through IMAP from the server into my account.
I can send and receive email absolutely fine, however it is not saving any sent emails and it won't save any emails to the draft folder. I have tested from the webmail on the server, the sent email goes into the sent folder on the web, and then I also see it in Mac Mail.
But if I send an email from Mail, it won't go into the sent folder.
Any ideas what I need to do to get this working properly? I have been on to the provider and they say it is something to do with my email settings but won't give me any more than that.
Please help.

Thanks Fred,
I had those checked already but it still wasn't working. In the end I found the below link to another post where I needed to put INBOX into the IMAP Path Prefix box in the Advanced section.
Once this had been done and I sent another message, the sent box from the IMAP account appeared in the Mail sent box and it's all working now.
You were right with the "Sent Messages" folder, this also appeared after I had done the above step.
Thanks again.
Simon
Link to other post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6620141&#6620141

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If this is an IMAP account, try going to Mail/Preferences/Accounts/Mailbox Behaviors and uncheck Store drafts on server.

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Put in a request for another verification e-mail to be sent to you.
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Junk email and drafts

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