Sent messages marked as junk

Almost all my incoming messages are marked as junk- but so are the messages I send too. How is this possible?

Hi Jeff,
What type of account are you using -- POP, IMAP or .mac?

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Mail not saving sent messages, not moving Junk messages

Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble with OS Mail. I've set it up to use an IMAP account, and have set my preferences such that Mail should save all my sent messages in the Sent folder (I assume the Sent folder on my computer, not the one on my IMAP server). Regardless, neither my IMAP server's sent folder nor my computer's sent folder contain any messages that I've sent, and I have confirmed that these messages have in fact been received by the recipients (therefore successfully sent). I am unsure of how to resolve this issue, as there is no obvious setting change for me to persue. I just received this computer (new) a few days ago, so I wouldn't expect this problem to be due to disk maintenance/management, etc.
Also, I have noticed that Junk messages remain highlighted and in my inbox. I changed my prefs to have these messages be placed in my Junk Mail folder. Mail asked me whether I wanted to apply that preference to older messages marked as junk that have yet to be put in the folder; I indicated yes. Nothing happened, and the Junk Mail folder remained empty (until I manually moved the messages to it). Any ideas?
I have searched the forums for related issues and could only find problems that had an associated error message with it; my issue is different in that there are no error messages; Mail is simply ignoring my preferences. Thanks in advance,
Vic

In OS X Mail, this sent folder appears as a subdirectory
(sub "mailbox"?) under my "Inbox" mailbox along with
other folders that are mapped on my IMAP account.
This means you haven't set up your account properly. You probably should set Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > IMAP Path Prefix to INBOX, or something like that.
After putting the right string in the IMAP Path Prefix field, either the IMAP folders will appear somewhere else in Mail (i.e. not as subfolders of Inbox), or your problem will have already been fixed. Let me know what happens.
I should probably mention (just realized) that in my
account settings, my outgoing SMTP server is set to
be my ISP's server (which is different from my IMAP
provider).
I wonder if, by selecting "save messages on server"
I am saving these messages somewhere on my ISP?
Mail should still save the sent messages where you've told it to. It's Mail, not the SMTP server, that stores the sent messages. The SMTP server has no bearing on this, but it was a good idea to consider that possibility, nevertheless.
When I uncheck this option, perhaps my mail will
be stored on my local computer instead?
Yes, that's what would happen, but don't uncheck that option if you really want your sent messages to be stored on the IMAP server, or do it temporarily, so that Mail does at least save them somewhere until we fix the problem, but I believe I already know what the problem is.

Outbox messages marked as Junk

I see some messages I have sent are marked as Junk in the outbox. I can't detect a pattern and the addressees are in my Address Book. What's happening. And are the poeple receiving these messages marked as Junk?

Do the messages really appear marked as junk in Outbox or do they appear in Sent?
Have you made any changes to the junk filter in Preferences > Junk Mail > Advanced? Try this:
1. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, disable junk mail filtering, then enable it again. This resets the rule that governs what the junk filter does.
2. Choose either Training or Automatic mode (it doesn’t matter) and leave the other options checked. Click Advanced to see how the junk filter rule is defined now if you want, but don’t touch anything there.
3. Reset the junk filter database (Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset).

Why are messages in Sent Folder marked as Junk?

I have a new Intel iMac with Safari 2.0.3. A few days ago I noticed that all the messages in the Sent Folder are marked as Junk with the brown color band at the top and the message saying "You have marked this messages as Junk." I have no rules in place to cause this and my incoming mail is filtered using the Advanced feature. I have no idea why mail I have composed and sent would be marked at all, much less as junk. Any help is solving this would be appreciated. Also, I noticed a lot of postings about mail in Sent Folders being lost. I wonder if that mail was marked as Junk first, like mine, and then moved into the Trash based on a rule to throw junk mail away. I have no rules to move junk mail to the trash.

I'm also having the same issue. I think there's a correlation between whether or not a message is auto-saved as a Draft and whether or not it shows up as UNREAD in your Sent folder. For instance, if I write a quick message (~10 seconds) and send, then is has not had time to be auto-saved as a Draft and does not show up as UNREAD in the Sent folder. However, if I leave a new message open long enough (~2 minutes or more) then it has auto-saved in the Drafts folder, where it has received a UNREAD marking. Then, when I send the item, it is moved to the Sent folder, but retains the UNREAD marking.
Does anyone see this correlation on their system?

Messages Marked as Junk

Just recently had problems with my Mail program that had me importing all my old email: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=839892&tstart=0
Anyhow, now I am noticing that messages are being marked that brownish/orange color as junk, even I after I tell it 'Not Junk'. Then I looked over at my sent mail, and I noticed that everything I have sent since I did that import is being marked that brownish/orange color as Junk. I again tell it it's 'Not Junk', but after browsing between different mail folders, I got back to see it marked again.
Frustrating!
Please help.
-Manuel

Try this first:
1. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail and disable junk mail filtering.
2. Quit Mail, then open it again.
3. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, enable junk mail filtering, and configure it however you wish. I recommend choosing Automatic mode, and leaving all the other options checked.
4. Reset the junk filter database (Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset).

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.

MY 'sent' messages are marked as junk

I am in training mode in Apple mail.
Why are all my sent messages marked as junk?

Hi Jeff,
What type of account are you using -- POP, IMAP or .mac?

Sent messages are being marked as "unread"

Ever since installing OS X 10.8.3, both my iMac and MBP have been leaving sent messages marked as "unread". Not all outgoing messages are being left in this unread state, but most are. Any ideas on why this might be happening and how to fix it? Is anybody else having the problem? A search of the forums shows some old material that might be related, but I don't see anything that has any answers.
TIA for you help.

This stopped happening as mysteriously as it started for me. The only change made on my end is that I added some seemingly unrelated filter Rules - around the same time (i can't be entirely certain if it stopped before or after the Rule changes) the proble with sent messages being marked as unread stopped. I doubt that the Rules actually had a direct effect, though perhaps it altered the structure of memory enough to stop the bug from occurring (something which I've seen many times in my 40 years of programming).

Mail is marking my "Sent" messages as Junk

Hi--
I've been noticing strange behavior by my junk mail system lately. First it was junking almost everything that came in without telling me.
Now it has taken to marking all my sent messages as junk.
Anybody have a clue?
Thanks,
Tim
Mini Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1 GB Ram

Hi Tim.
This kind of problems are caused by some corruption in one or more of the files used by the junk filter. Try this first:
1. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail and disable junk mail filtering.
2. Quit Mail, then open it again.
3. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, enable junk mail filtering, and configure it however you wish.
4. Reset the junk filter database (Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset).

Why are many of my sent messages in Mail 2.1.3 getting marked as Junk?

I have both sent messages (about 75% of them) being automatically marked as junk mail, and I also have many email messages coming into my inbox that are being marked as junk (even if their names/ email addresses are in my address book).
Any help on this? Thanks!

Hi JonnySuzieQ, and a warm welcome to the forums!
What kind of account is this, POP or IMAP?
Is the MobileMe perchance?

Mail is marking all Sent messages as Junk

Mail is marking all my Sent messages as Junk. In addition, any mail I send myself arrives in the Junk folder.
Also annoying is that some new messages received (about 50%) arrive in the Inbox marked as Read.
MacBook Pro Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

For the Junk Mail problem.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail.
Deselect "Enable junk mail filtering"
Quit and relaunch Mail.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail and reselect
"Enable junk mail filtering". Select Reset to reset
the Junk Mail "learned" settings and you can leave
Junk Mail set to Automatic when doing so.
For the new messages received being marked as read,
for what type of account - .Mac, IMAP or POP?
Thanks! I've reset as you suggested. Hopefully that will be effective.
I'm using a Pop account.

All sent mail marked junk

All my sent mail is marked as junk for some reason. I've reset the junk mail filters, etc., but it is still marked. Any ideas?

Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, proceed as follows to thoroughly get rid of all the files used by the junk filter, so that Mail creates them anew:
1. If you have a .Mac account and .Mac synchronization of Mail data is enabled either in Mail > Preferences > General or in System Preferences > .Mac, disable it before proceeding.
2. Quit Mail if it’s running.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/.
4. Locate LSMMap2 and move it to the Trash. This file stores information about what does and doesn’t constitute junk, and allows the junk filter to learn. Deleting this file is what Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset does. The file was called LSMMap in early versions of Mail; delete that as well if you see it.
5. Locate any MessageRules.plist (Mail 2.x) and/or MessageSorting.plist (Mail 1.x) files and move them to the Desktop. This is where Mail stores all the rules, including the rule that governs what the junk filter does.
6. Locate DefaultCounts and move it to the Trash. This file keeps statistics about the number of messages that have been marked as junk, either automatically by the junk filter or manually by the user.
7. Look for the account folders. The name of each account folder starts with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. Open each of the account folders, locate the Junk.mbox or Junk.imapmbox folder within it, and move it to the Trash if present.
8. Go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. Locate any Junk.mbox mailboxes there (their name may include the account name in parenthesis), and move them to the Trash.
Note: Steps 7 and 8 may be unnecessary. Also, messages in Junk mailboxes with an .mbox suffix are stored locally and will be lost forever as a result of doing steps 7 and 8. If there is a chance that you have legit messages there that you want to preserve, either try skipping those steps, or move the messages to another mailbox in Mail first, or move Junk.mbox to the Desktop (to be imported back later) instead of to the Trash. Junk mailboxes with an .imapmbox suffix aren’t a concern because they are stored on the server and Mail would rebuild them automatically.
9. Open Mail. As a result of removing the rules file, the junk filter will be disabled now. You may want to either shut down the Internet connection before opening Mail or take Mail offline immediately after opening it, to prevent Mail from downloading anything until the junk mail filter has been enabled again.
10. Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail and enable the junk filter.
11. Go online again if you went offline in step 9.
12. If the problem is fixed now and .Mac synchronization of Mail data was enabled at the beginning, enable it again, go to System Preferences > .Mac > Advanced, click Reset Sync Data, and choose the appropriate options to reset the Mail data stored on the .Mac server with the data locally stored on the computer, i.e. sync data must flow from the computer to the .Mac server.
If the above solves the problem and you don’t have any rules you’d like to preserve or recreating them is not a daunting task, the files moved to the Desktop in step 5 can be deleted.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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...

Why are messages being marked as junk when I have the addresses in my Contacts list?

Almost all incoming messages are marked as junk in two of my accounts. I have 3 other mail accounts without this problem and work normally.
I've added the address to my contacts list and turned off or deleted all junk filters and options. I've rebuilt the Global index and none of this has helped. A few messages have gone directly to my junk folders for these accounts but mostly they stay in the Inbox.
I'm sure its probably someplace in my profile but I don't know what it could be or how to find out.
Thunderbird version 24.6.0
Mac OSX 10.9.4
Thanks.

All they seem to do is furnish the software you can download for Windows OS only. I'm using Mac. They may have something that filters their local email accounts but I've never set up the email account I have with them in Thunderbird. I'll check that account and see if there are any filters..
I have 3 different email accounts set up, two for 2 websites and gmail. One of the website accounts works just fine. The others have the problem.
Thanks

All my incoming messages are being marked as junk

If I send a message to myself the filter marks mail as junk despite the advanced settings saying 'don't mark as junk people in my address book'. I reset the junk mail filter by accident. Anyone have any ideas. It was working OK up to that point

You're welcome.
After verifying that it's working properly, I suggest you also click the Reset button again, because the file that stores statistical junk data could very well contain wrong information now, and that might cause problems in the future.

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