Mark my mail as not junk

mail is moving some of my emails to junk and i want to label it "not junk". Can't find that option anywhere with new Yosemite os x

Realized that only some of my junk mail allows me to mark as "not junk" and others don't have that option. Not sure why.

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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

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?
Thanks

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.

When I mark a mail in the junk folder 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?
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 do you mark mail as "not junk'?

The "not junk mail" icon is not working---I highlight the mis-identified message, and the icon should change to a "thumbs-up" so I can say "not junk mail" but it doesn't change. I have not been able to figure out how to mark things as "not junk." Any ideas?

Which email? Yahoo, AOL, Exchange, etc.? I find that I have to do this on a webmail interface, personally.

Running mail 5.3 how do I mark mail as not junk

I am running 10.7.5 with mail 5.3 and can't find any way to mark mail as not junk

You should post in the OS X Lion section.

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...

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'.

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?

I have mail going to junk folder, that is not marked as junk

I have been using mac for almost a year and I starte dusing the mail app that comes with the os, I have sevral email accounts on it, some mail that has never been marked as junk is going to the junk folder and when i click on the junk icon it markes it as junk click on it again and unmarks it as junk then i transfer it to inbox but the next email will go to junk, this is happaning with some email from people i dont have in my adress book, and emails from twitter and facebook. is there a way i can mark certain senders as safe? for it to go into the inbox instead of junk?
please let me know
many thanks
Jason

Can't you turn it off completely?
I ave not much experience with spam/junk handling in Mail. I am not sure whether marking a mail as spam/junk it will be remembered always. There are third party spamfilters that you can install. I do not use them.
Lex

Why doesn't Mail allow a Junk IMAP message to be marked as "Not Junk"?

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.

Mail Going to Junk Folder that is Not Junk

I have mail that is going to my junk folder that is not junk. When I look at the "thumb" symbol for the mail, the thumb is down, meaning that it doesn't think it is junk either. Even when I turn my "Enable Junk Mail Filtering" off in Preferences, the mail still goes to junk. No idea how to fix this. It seems like a glitch!

Thank you Nubz N. and BobHarris for your feedback on the issue. I had actually already tried resetting my junk settings in Apple Mail and had no success, and trust me BobHarris, I was not using the Junk key as the delete key.
It turned out that I had to go directly to the email source's website, which in this case was Gmail, and change my junk settings there. Apple Mail was perceiving the incoming mail as "Not Junk", but because Gmail was viewing it as junk, it was still going to my Apple Mail junk folder. I'm not sure why Gmail was viewing it as junk, as I had never clicked junk before. Anyway, after changing the junk settings there at Gmail, the filter has now been working properly again.

E-mails landing in junk folder! FROM address not getting validated!

Hi,
I am designing an application which is going to send emails to a group of people in my office every month. I have been given a dedicated SMTP server for that.
The java code which I have written is sending mails to its recipients but the problem is that they are landing in their junk folder.
One thing I have found out is, the java code is not validating the FROM address. i.e even If I enter an invalid email id, It is being sent. The worst part is if I use a valid email id, it is not being recognized as a legitimate one.
The FROM address in the mail is literally a "String" in which u can put anything! (Eg. The emails are being sent if I put the FROM address as "1234567"!! )
One of the option is to make that mail as "not Junk" in the outlook. But I cant ask everyone to change their filter settings.
Is there any way in which the java code can first authenticate whether the FROM address is existing and then send the email if it is valid. (I am not talking about the SMTP authentication!)
I browsed a lot but couldn't find the answer for this. Please help me with this.
Regards,
harsha_t

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I was suggesting using Thunderbird as a debugging tool,
not as a solution to your problem. Knowing whether or not it has the same problem
would tell us whether the problem is some error in your program, or some magic in
Outlook that allows it to work.
If the ultimate destination mailbox is on some other server, then there's the server that's
deciding whether the message you send is junk or not. It probably has nothing to do with
the way you talk to your mail server. It might be something related to the content of the
message you're sending. If you send a message with exactly the same content using
Outlook, does it get sent to the junk folder?
I've heard rumors that some spam filters will look at the Message-ID header and consider
any message with a JavaMail-style Message-ID to be spam. (Apparently some spammers
like to use JavaMail.) You might try overriding the default Message-ID with one of your own.
Subclass MimeMessage, override the updateMessageId method, and set a value for the
Message-ID header. Use something simple at first just to prove whether or not it makes a
difference.

Valid mail goes to Junk folder

Apple's Mail has developed a serious flaw with Junk Mail filtering for
.Mac addresses ([email protected]). When Junk Mail filtering is enabled with
Junk Mail being automatically moved to the Junk Mail folder, messages
addressed to the old .Mac addresses ([email protected]) are being
automatically routed to the Junk mail folder without being marked as
spam or coloured brown, despite sender being in the Address Book or in
Previous Recipients. This does not happen to mail addressed to MobileMe
(i.e. [email protected]).
When MobileMe was introduced Apple assured the users of the old .Mac
service that nothing would change. This does not appear to be the case.
Yes we still get our mail addressed to the old .Mac address but it is
treated as spam., though not identified as such. There is no way to
change it to not spam as it is not marked as spam. It just ends up in
the Junk folder.
This is particularly annoying on an iPhone. When you go to read a new
message in the In box, it will suddenly disappear because it's been
filtered to the Junk folder.
Both my .Mac address and my MobileMe version of my address are in my
Address Book. I have reset my Junk Mail a number of times now both on
MobileMe website and in Mail and yet this problem still persists despite
assistance from MobileMe customer service.
Is there a solution to this problem?

Vince
I have looked at Mail's help menu briefly. You can 'teach' Mail what is/is not junk mail. Here's the help topic that could help:
"Marking messages as junk or not junk
Mail can analyze the content of incoming messages and identify which ones are likely to be junk mail. It highlights these messages in color (by default, in brown) in your Inbox.
If you receive messages that have been highlighted as junk, or messages that are junk but weren’t highlighted, you can mark the messages as not junk or junk. When you mark messages, Mail updates the junk mail database accordingly. Over time, Mail will identify junk mail more accurately.
To mark messages as junk or not junk:
To identify one or more messages in your Inbox as junk mail, select the messages and then click Junk in the toolbar, or choose Message > Mark > As Junk Mail.
To correct one or more messages that have been misclassified as junk and moved to the Junk mailbox, select the messages and click Not Junk in the toolbar, or choose Message > Mark > As Not Junk Mail."
While this doesn't explain fully why the filter isn't working for you as you had hoped it might enable you to get it working as you want - hopefully learning over a short period of time. I still think you should communicate the problem to Apple so that their techs can try to replicate and resolve the problem.
William, I'm somewhat disappointed with your obtuse replies, though I think I understand that you are saying it could be some issue with the specific settings Vince uses or perhaps some other software conflict.
Neville
Message was edited by: Neville Mayfield

Mail puts all mail in the Junk mailbox

I've been working fine with Mail for years. All of a sudden it started putting all incoming mail in the Junk mailbox, ignoring the filtering and sorting rules which I have set up in Preferences/Rules. I've poked around Preferences and everything seems to be as it was. I got rid of a lot of old mail. I rebuilt all my mailboxes. It's a pain to manually sort all my mail and even when I mark mail as "Not Junk" it still comes as Junk the next time.
Frustrating! Any ideas???

I ended up REMOVING the junk folder from the list of folders on the left. When mail arrives that IS junk, I mark it junk, then select "move to junk folder (again)" and off it goes. I find this much better than to have all my mail go to junk and I have to UNjunk it and move it to the appropriate folder.
I wrote to Apple, but have not received a response -- I'm NOT holding my breath!

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