'Mark as not junk' not available

I have had some mail messages in brown indicating possible junk. There is an option under 'Mark' for 'Mark as junk mail', but not one for 'Mark as not junk'. What do I do, except file the message away and accept it? Or add sender to my address book? (I am new to Lion.)

Hi David.
If you (successfully ) label the mail as JUNK, the Mail program eventually learns and when Mail arrives from that source, it auto marks it as JUNK.
Yes, simply highlight any unwanted mail, then delete and off it goes to Trash. Then review trash every so often, highlight the totally unwanted items ... and delete.
There is a bounce option under Apple menu > 'Message. Not wise to use it as it signifys that the email address is open and manned ... the last thing you want them to know.
Hope this wraps up the rest of your inquiries.

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I don't understand the behavior of Mail (Lion) when it comes to junk mail from IMAP accounts. Mail has marked an email from an IMAP account as junk (judging by the brown text color) and has moved it to the Junk mailbox. For some reason, though, Mail doesn't provide the usual function to mark it as "Not Junk".
Mail does allow marking the message as Junk, which suggests that Mail actually didn't mark it as Junk properly in the first place. Fortunately, this also provides a workaround. When I mark the message as Junk, it gets flagged with the brown paper bag symbol. After that I can mark the message as Not Junk, which removes both the bag symbol AND the brown text color.
Still, I would rather see Mail behave differently. Does anyone have an explanation for this behavior or tips to alter it?
Regards,
-Eric

Soooo, Apple, why don't your crackerjack programmers make it possible to have multiple message windows open at one time in Mail???!
It's always been available for as long as I can remember.
Eudora is archaic, ancient history, IMHO.

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Apple Mail keeps putting good messages into the Junk folder. I mark them as 'not junk', but then they just sit there. It is really tedious to have to move them back to the inbox, and change the colour back to black. Is there any way to do this automatically?
I originally placed this question on the Snow Leopard group, but since then I have updated to Lion. I was hoping that Lion would have provided a solution, but it seems not. In the Snow Leopard group, somebody posted a script which apparently works in Snow Leopard, but I have no idea if it works in Lion, as there doesn't seem to be any way to load scripts.
This is the script, anyway.
It was given to me by <Bernard Hills> but I don't know who wrote it.

OK, I've discovered how to access the library.
It's here: http://techheavy.com/2011/07/access-the-user-library-folder-in-lion/
But I don't really want to try that script in case it screws something up. I know zero about scripting.

How to mark as 'Not Junk' in Mail?

I no longer seem to have the option to mark mail as 'Not Junk' on my Mac.
I only have one mail account on my Mac (MobileMe) and recently some of my Facebook email notifications haven't been getting through. It turns out that a few of these emails are making their way to the Junk mail folder.
Unfortunately, I no longer get the option to mark the mail as 'Not Junk' when I open it. It doesn't matter if I open it from the Junk mail folder or move it first. Interestingly, the message isn't highlighted in brown even though it's in the Junk folder so it's as if MobileMe has decided it's junk rather than Mail on my Mac. Does that make sense?? I can't find a way to change Junk mail settings from the MobileMe web interface, though.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful!

Don't you just hate replying to your own posts??
It's not a very elegant solution (I am not a Mac expert) but I think I have come up with something.
I have created a rule in Mail>Preferences, such that if an incoming message contains the email address I want (e.g. from facebook), it will 'move' it to my MobileMe inbox. I reckon it should have gone to the inbox automatically anyway, but this seems to have worked.
Unless Apple have done something behind the scenes that I wasn't aware of?

When I mark a message as 'not junk', is there a way to have it automatically move to the inbox?

Apple Mail keeps putting good messages into the Junk folder. I mark them as 'not junk', but then they just sit there. It is really tedious to have to move them back to the inbox, and change the colour back to black. Is there any way to do this automatically. (And while I'm at it, why is the Mail junk filter so poor? Shouldn't it be learning: it just keeps putting the same good messages into junk.

Which version of Mail are u using and which Os ?
On this side Mail 4.5 ans SL 10.6.8, I do have the possibility to transfer from the JunkBox to the in box for exemple and even change the color of the text... Sorry , in French.
Edit, just saw that yre on 10.6.8 from your firt post...

Problem with marking mail as Not Junk in IMAP account

Hi,
I have an IMAP email account on Go Daddy that I forward all my other mail accounts for processing. I use Apple Mail to process this IMAP account and use Mail.app's Junk filter to move Junk mail to the Junk mailbox. This Junk mailbox is mapped in Mail.app to my Go Daddy Bulk Mail IMAP folder, and the Trash and Inbox are also mapped to their respective folders of this IMAP account's Mail.app is set to "Enable junk mail filtering" and "Move it to the junk mailbox".
When junk mail comes in, Mail.app correctly identifies the mail as junk and moves it to the Junk folder. However, if I find a message that Mail.app misidentified as junk and I attempt to mark it as Not Junk, the message gets a Not Junk status (not brown anymore), but the message stays in the Junk folder; Mail.app does not move it back into the Inbox.
I would assume that since both the Inbox and Junk mail (Bulk Mail) folders are IMAP and on the same account, that upon marking the message as Not Junk, this mail should be moved back into the Inbox, just like under POP.
Am I mistaken about the operation of Junk mail under IMAP? Should marking a message as Not Junk move it automatically to the Inbox? Do I have my folders and options set right? Should I possibly use a 3rd party Spam filter such as SpamSieve (where I can control its actions via Applescript)?
Thanks for any info.
Mike

Ah Ernie, I think you found out my "problem".
Before I upgraded to SN, I used SpamSieve to manage my POP SPAM. When I changed to SN, I did away with SpamSieve and POP, and used IMAP and Mail.app's Junk filtering. SpamSieve, since its "Mark As Junk" and "Mark As Not Junk" functionality uses Applescript, it must've moved the Not Junk message back to the inbox.
Thanks for the pointer; I may change back to SpamSieve to get back that functionality.
Mike

Why can't mail automatically go back to inbox if marked "not junk"??

I hope someone who has the power to change this annoying feature reads this post.
In Apple Mail Inbox - if I mark an e-mail as junk, it is automatically moved to the Junk folder. But if I select an e-mail in the Junk mail folder, and I click it to be "not junk", it just changes the color of the text, but the e-mail remains in the Junk mail folder. Why can't it then automatically be moved to the normal inbox?? Certainly not too much to ask - in fact, I think this should be a logical expectation from the vast majority of users.
Please Apple - this is poor programming and needs to be fixed!

Hi -
Hmm, mine used to do this a few days ago, but doesn't now . . . ??
The only think I've done is to change the rules.
My settings are to look for an address in my address book or previous
recipients - if not, send to trash. In another discussion, this apparently
doesn't work all the time, and nobody knows why.
When I open the trash and find lots of messages that shouldn't be there,
clicking on "Not Junk" just keeps in trash.
Sigh . . .
Steve

How to mark email messages as Not Junk?

When I look in the Junk email folder in Mac Mail, I see messages that I did not mark as junk mail. I guess Mac Mail is somehow filtering and classifying the messages as junk. Within the Junk folder, however, there are messages that are not junk. How to I mark these items (and future messages from the same source) as not junk, so that they appear in my Inbox and not in my Junk folder?
What I Think I Am Supposed To Do
1. Open a message in the Junk folder that I do not want to be classifled as junk.
2. By default, a "thumbs down" icon appears in the toolbar (View > Show Toolbar). I click on thumbs down to mark the message as junk. The thumbs down icon changes to a "thumps up" icon.
3. I click on the thumbs up icon to mark the item as not junk
Is this the right thing to do? When I do the above steps, the message remains in the Junk folder - it does not move my Inbox folder. But will future messages from the same source go into my Inbox?
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In case other are having this problem: With Outlook.com email, I found that mark email items as Not Junk within Mac Mail had not effect. Subsequent emails from the same sender still went into the Junk folder.
I had to sign on to my Outlook.com email at www.outlook.com website and mark the emails there as Not Junk. Subsequent emails from the same sender than arrived in my Mac Mail Inbox, as desired.

How do I mark things as not junk that end up in my junk folder

Sometimes I get an option right on the email to click "not junk." However, these items don't seem to have this option. I don't know how certain emails are pre-determined to go into my junk folder. However if they some how got in there, it seems there should be a way I can mark them "not junk" for future emails from the same person or from the same group of persons. Anyone know how to change the setting some how? Thanks in advance!

I don't know what CurlyMolly's problem is. But I have a problem with an email that keeps ending up in my Junk folder...
"Mail maintains an internal database of information that helps it detect junk mail. When you mark messages as junk or not junk, Mail updates the junk mail database accordingly and your junk mail filter improves over time. If you change your mind about what is junk mail (for example, you want to receive someone’s messages that you previously specified as junk mail), you need to mark them as not junk."
That last part which states to "Mark them as not junk." Well, where is that? Because what is in the top part of my Mail app when I have that message selected while in the Junk folder is "Mark this as Junk". Fact is, I have a rule set up for messages from the senders email address to be moved to a specific folder. I actually have dozens of rules with emails being moved/copied here and there. This one email is my only problem child.
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Which email? Yahoo, AOL, Exchange, etc.? I find that I have to do this on a webmail interface, personally.

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I use my devices so much that sometimes things happen in my dreams and i confuse them for being real! So I am not sure but if I'm not wrong the "flag" icon in iOS 7 Mail in a given mail in the Junk folder does give an option "Mark as Not Junk". Today I am unable to locate that option in any of my mails that were diverted to junk!
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For mail in another folder, like the Inbox, the option is "Move to Junk", not "Mark as Junk"; the inverse operation (move out of the Junk folder) would be accomplished with the folder icon (and specifying the destination).
Since iOS Mail has no native junk-filtering function, there is no concept of marking as junk/not-junk. There is no one-button "move out of Junk" function because iOS Mail does not keep track of the original location, and it might not even be the agent that put the message into Junk.

Mark as "not junk", then move to Inbox?

How can I make Mail move email I mark as "Not Junk" into the Inbox automatically, much like Entourage does?
Thanks.

No it will continue to learn in Automatic, but it is a good practice to have your junk mail trashed after a delay of days or a week so you can intercept mails that are marked as junk but are not.

Messages Marked "NOT JUNK" are still BROWN in my INBOX

Hey there
This is a bit annoying -( see subject line)
Are they any ways to mark them in black color since they are not junk?
Thanks

Hi David.
Not sure what you mean, but you can use the Colors palette (Format > Show Colors) to manually change the background highlight of messages in the message list. Although the Colors palette cannot be used to set the foreground color, it can be used to remove it. In particular, choosing either black or white removes both the background highlight and the foreground color of the messages currently selected in the message list.

In 31.3, how do you mark a message as Not Junk

T'bird help says there's a Not Junk button, but I can't find one. Thanks for your help

There are two ways to mark as Not Junk:
When viewing a message TB (or you) has marked as junk, there is a strip near the top of the message which says 'Thunderbird thinks this message is junk mail.' In that strip, there is a box on the right which says 'Not Junk'.
The other way is in the list of mail in a folder, if you right click on the message, one of the options is 'Mark'; then hovering your mouse over that you can select 'As Not Junk'.

'Mark as not junk' not available

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