Locating address in Mail Preferences Rule

Is there a quick way to locate an address that I may have thrown into my Junk Mailbox where I have hundreds of addresses that I am going to trash unltimately without the need of going through each one. I want to pull a particular address from the Junk box and have it go back to the inbox. I have 5 rules that place email addresses in the same Junk box and each has hundreds of addresses. One of my emails keeps landing in the Junk folder and I want to restore it to the Inbox.

I went to the local Apple store earlier this week and asked on of the folks at the Genius Bar if he knew how to set the outgoing mail address. He showed me that I could enable the "reply to" field and then put my mail forwarding address into that field. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to pre-populate that field so that it always has my mail forwarding account address.

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I was going through my preferences and I saw this rule named "Full Stop"…but I don't know where it came from (I have another computer and it doesn't have it). I looked it up online but couldn't really find anything, which I thought was odd.
Can anyone tell where this comes from? I disabled it, but haven't deleted it yet. Thanks

I don't think I ever imported a mail account into this computer, or copied any preferences or directories relating to Mail into it (I added a laptop last year and I did synchronize the two machines but as I said the rule doesn't appear in the laptop).
It reads as follows:
Description: Full Stop
If 'any' of the following conditions are met:
'Every Message'
Perform the following actions:
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That's it (not part of the rule

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Mail > Preferneces > Accounts > click + on bottom left

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The Mail application has suddenly started giving error:
"Verify that you have addressed this message correctly. Check your SMTP server settings in Mail preferences and verify any advanced settings with your system administrator.Select a different outgoing mail server from the list"
It was working fine till yesterday, suddenly it stopped. I have 3 email accounts configured here, 2 are on exchange servers and one yahoo. Connection verification works and shows all servers as green.
Any inputs?

I had 3 accounts, 2 ms exchange accounts and 1 yahoo. After removal of yahoo, everything is back to normal.
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HT201342 I cannot find any place to "Go to Mail Preferences". I have tried looking under both "Mail" and "System Preferences" and there is nothing there entitled "Mail Preferences". Where is that button located?

The instructions say "Go to Mail Preferences."
I cannot find any place called "Mail Preferences". I have tried looking under both "Mail" and "System Preferences" and there is nothing there entitled "Mail Preferences". Under "Preferences" there is no subheading as described in the iCloud instructions. Where is that "Mail Preferences" button located?

Open Mail, go to the 'Mail' menu, select Preferences.

Mail Preferences Disappeared

Mail was working just fine all day. My wife tries to reply to a message received earlier and gets the following error message:
"This message could not be delivered and will remain in your Outbox until it can be delivered.
Verify that you have addressed this message correctly. Check your SMTP server settings in Mail Preferences and verify any advanced settings with your system administrator."
I go to Mail->Preferences and the only Preference pane I get is for Junk Mail. General, Accounts, Fonts and Colors, Viewing, Composing, Signatures, Rules are all missing. Can't very well verify the SMTP server settings if the Preference pane isn't there.
My Inbox looks OK and I have received one message since this all started. I can read the contents and was able to empty the Junk Mail and Deleted Messages mailboxes. File sizes in Users->xxx->Library->Mail all are the right size and appear intact.
I've tried a reboot and a complete system shutdown (including power disconnect), but Mail Preferences are still missing. There's nothing in the Trash that looks fishy. I've tried a couple of test messages back to my own e-mail account and got the same error message.
Is there a way to reinstall only the Mail app? Is there some way to find/verify that the Mail Preferences exist?
Need help, here. This is weird-and-a-half. First time in 20 years on Mac that I've seen anything like this.
Dual 2 Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
Dual 2 Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

OK, I found the answer in a reply to another question. The pill-shaped buton in the upper right corner of the Junk Mail Preference pane retrieved the rest of the Preferences and I was able to check my SMTP Server settings, which were correct. My test messages also came through this morning, leading me to believe that my ISP had a problem on their end, which was subesequently corrected.
My habit has always been to close any Preferences window while in the "Show All" mode, so I didn't think to check that first.
Dual 2 Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

No Mail Preferences Need to Look at My Account Settings

Ok - Someone got my email password and I had to call my email company. They had me change my password. But now I cannot send mail. I can receive it. And all my other email address are working. Something happened with my mail awhile ago where when I click on mail preferences the only thing that comes up is a box with rules. I don't know how to fix this. I have tried everything that I can think of. I have browsed through here, but I am not too familiar with this new OSX mac stuff. So if anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. Oh, maybe this will help you too, I downloaded Eudora, a mac email program (cause there are no mail programs out there for us mac lovers) and I set this up. I am still getting the same problem, I cannot send emails. Which leads me to believe there is something I am missing.

When you have opened Preferences (which isn't giving you any choices), still with Preferences pane open the next thing to do is to go back up to the top menu bar click on View
and from that will be a choice Show Toolbar (in preferences)
After doing that you should once again have General, Accounts, Junk Mail, Fonts and colours, Viewing, Composing, signature, Rules.
You are only seeing Rules, because the toolbar is not showing.

Junk Mail Fix (Rules)

I check several accounts using Mail, one of which gets at least 20 pure junk messages per day. After upgrading to Tiger, the junk mail filter stopped working, completely. It would catch 0, no matter how long I trained it. The most annoying thing was how obvious most of the junk mail messages were. They weren't addressed to any name usually, let alone my name, and many of the headers looked very similar to messages I had been marking as junk every day, even if the reply-to addresses varied.
The usual fixes did not work. I tried resetting junk in preferences, deleting LSMMap2, and even reinstalling everything.
The one fix that did work was removing all my rules by deleting MessageRules.plist. (Thanks to the person who posted this. I would have replied to that thread, but it's closed.)
The only problem was that as soon as I put my rules back, manually, junk stopped working again. That's how I figured out the problem though. I have certain messages automatically redirected into different local folders.
This bypasses the junk filter apparently. To fix this, I created my own junk rule and put it above all other rules. I simply used the same rule attributes that you see if you click "Advanced..." in the Junk Mail preference pane, with one addition. I added "Stop evaluating rules." (This may not be necessary. I will test.)
Sorry for the long-winded explanation, but I thought it was important to be clear what the symptoms were before I discovered a fairly simple work-around. I'm sure this won't solve everyone's junk problems, but I know many others have been complaining about this and had probably just given up and decided that the junk mail filter just was no longer effective in the face of more advanced spamming techniques.
Lastly, the Junk rule used to be automatically listed as a rule when Junk Mail filtering was turned on (pre-Tiger). It's a shame they tried to make it separate, thus breaking it, since it really is just a sophisticated rule.
PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Try resetting the Junk Mail filter and try again.
You can also set advanced rules in the preferences.
Are you able to mark those messages as Not Junk, or is that not available?

Multiple alias email addresses in mail,only receiving mail from one

I have set up additional alias addresses for my virgin.net account and added these to the email address field in mail preferences separated by comma's, but only the mail from the original one comes in although I can access the mail of the additional ones on their webmail and send email from them from mail. Anyhing else I needed to do?

Yes.
If each email address has a different password, then this also indicates each email address has it's own user name to check the incoming mail server for new mail. The user name for an email account is usually the portion of the email address in front of the @ sign only but for some ISPs and email account providers, it is the entire email address.
The user name for each email address is the key.
If each email address has its own user name and password, then you must create each email address as a separate account in Mail.
You can create separate accounts in Mail that use the same incoming mail server and each can have the same password as long as each account has a different user name.
When creating an email account in Mail, an account named folder is created at the first level within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account. The mailboxes accociated with the account such as the account's Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk (when Junk Mail is set to automatic) mailboxes are located within the account named folder.
This is why you cannot create separate accounts in mail that utilize the same user name and incoming mail server.
An "alias" email address to the primary account/email address uses the same user name, password and incoming mail server as the primary account/email address. If so, the only way to add an alias email address to the Mail.app for access is by adding the alias email address to the email address field separated by a comma under the Account Information tab for the primary account preferences.

Alias no showing up in mail preference

the first alias i created for my iclould email isn't showing up in the mail preference. anyone has same issue?

It's not located in Preferences.
Click the compose icon to open a new message window.
Click the pop up menu next to: From.
Select the alias address you want to use.

Mail preferences has disappeared how do I get it back

A couple of days ago my mail went crazy and most things suddenly dumped themselves in Junk. I spent some time sorting it out and adding a lot of rules. Yesterday I found I had missed a couple and wanted to add a rule or edit an existing one. Click on Mail Preferences and nothing happens. Was busy, went away, forgot about it. Tried gain today. Nothing. Checked other Preferences eg Safari, Excel. They're there. What do I do now?

Hey MingtheSiarmese,
Thanks for the question. Let’s try quitting the Mail application and restarting your computer. If you have trouble quitting the application, see this article for information on how to Force Quit:
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3411
Thanks,
Matt M.

Error message when changing Mail preferences

Whenever I change anything in the Preferences of Mail 2.0.8 even just opening the preferences and then closing them, I get an error message that says "Error Saving Preferences" " Writing your preferences to disk has failed. Your preferences may not have been saved. The permissions on ~/Library/Preferences may be wrong or your disk may be full." However, the change seems to have been made anyway as the expected new behavior occurs. The disk isn't full (haven't had it long enough!) and I don't know what to do about the preferences.
Is there anything I can do to find out what might be wrong BEFORE something horrible happens? Tomorrow is back up day. Should I change anything before I do it?
10.4.6
Mac Mini Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 gig RAM

This particular issue is still a mystery to me. In the rare cases when I've seen it reported, none of the suggestions that one would expect should work did.
Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and type the following commands -- you can copy them here, one at a time, and paste them in Terminal to avoid having to manually type them:
ls -ld ~/Library/Preferences
ls -l ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
What do they say?
If you want to try re-creating the preferences file, be sure to do it properly, i.e.:
1. Quit Mail.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate the com.apple.mail.plist file and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
You'll have to set up your non-Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don't. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done.
You'll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it's enabled.
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 file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

Hiding group addresses in Mail

With Microsoft Entourage, you can create a group, fill it up with email contacts and then check a box that says "Don't show addresses when sending to a group." As you might expect, this is handy when I want to send a mass message out to lots of people I know while at the same time respecting the privacy each member may have as far as sharing their email address with others. I can't find this feature with Apple's Mail, if in fact it even exists.

Mail Preferences, Composing, Addressing, When sending to a group, show all member addresses.
Or, just BCC everyone.

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