Smart Mailboxes Criteria- Need More Location Options

In the domain I use (let's call it blank.com), I figured out that spammers send a lot of spam to specific addresses - specifically [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc.
I set up a smart mailbox that listed about 10 of these zombie addresses that are all spam and the joining conjunction in the smart mailbox coding is ANY. The issue is this: Is it possible to restrict my search criteria to specific locations? After I locate 100 spams in this smart mailbox and Mark as spam, they get sent to the junk folder. The problem is, unless I go into the junk folder and delete the new additions, the smart mailbox search criteria will continue to find new spam and it finds the old spam that is now in the junk folder.
Ideally, I would be able to have a rule that looks for ANY of these:
recipient includes [email protected] in the folder Inbox
recipient includes [email protected] in the folder Inbox
recipient includes [email protected] in the folder Inbox
But I don't think I can do this, or can it?

Well, syncing does not just work.
I reset my sync data. I got another set of smart mailboxes, all with empty fields. And a new smart mailbox that I had created just for the test on that mac disappeared. I expected this, as it was set to sync. But the sync produced only smart boxes with empty criteria again.
I also unregistered a mac that did not work. And then reregistered it. And synced it. And again, I only got empty fields in the criteria, and 2 sets of smart boxes.
So I went to "~/Library/Mail/SmartMailboxes.plist" and moved that plist to the unsyncable mac. And now I have working smart mailboxes again.
I don't know why the sync does not work. Or when it happened. I will keep watch.

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