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.

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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.
KOT

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.

How do I mark an email as junk in mavericks?

How do I mark an email as junk in mavericks.

There's a big "thumbs down" icon that should be in your toolbar, so long as you have junk mail enabled in Mail's preferences.

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

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.

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 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 identify mail in the junk folder as "not junk"?

I came across this answer on the Apple support site:
Tell Mail that a message is legitimate by marking it as not junk. Click Not Junk in the banner of the message; or select the message, then click the Not Junk button in the Mail toolbar.
Unfortunately, I don't see "not junk" in the banner of the message (not entirely sure what a "banner" is, but I'm looking everywhere) or a thumbs up button on any toolbar.

CTS wrote:
I do not see that option. The messages in my junk folder do not have those buttons on them.
Then they weren't marked as Junk by Mail.
Things can end up in your Junk folder in one of three ways:
1) Mail's junk filter reviews the message and determines it is junk. It then marks it as junk and moves it into the Junk folder (if prefs set to do so).
2) An email server marks the message with spam headers because it thinks it is spam. Mail will move those messages to Junk if you have the prefs set to trust junk mail headers. It does not mark those as Junk because it doesn't know why they have the headers set, just that they do.
3) Your email provider has moved the message to the Spam folder on the server and you are using IMAP (or other server-based account). Again, Mail will not mark those as Junk as Mail did not make the determination that they were Junk.

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.

ICloud Junk mailbox contains mail that is not junk

I think this started when I upgraded to Mountain Lion, but I'm not sure. Recently, a Junk mailbox has appeared among my iCloud mailboxes. What is annoying is that quite often, messages are sent to this mailbox that I have not marked as junk. Indeed, some of the messages sent there have been important. I've tried deleting the mailbox, but it keeps reappearing, with messages that are not junk. Any idea how I change this behavior?
Thanks in advance

Try changing the Junk filtering in your Mail/Preferences/Junk Mail. For the messages already there, you will have to mark them as not Junk.

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.

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...

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!

Junk Mail icon turns to "NOT junk mail" when dragged to toolbar

Okay, maybe I'm missing something here. I get a piece of mail that Mail thinks is junk. I'm supposed to be able to select the message, and click on the "mark as junk" icon, or go to the menu and do Mark Message as Junk. Well, neither of those options exist. Within the menu, I can only Mark Message as Not Junk. When I try to drag the Junk icon from the toolbar options to the toolbar, it turns into a Not Junk icon on the way. Wierd.

Greetings,
This sounds like Mail already thinks that the message is Junk. The switches are automatic, and will swap between Junk/Not Junk depending on which the message is.

Running mail 5.3 how do I mark mail as not junk

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