Why is some mail going to bulk folder?

I have an ATT mail account (Yahoo account too.) I started to become concerned about email that I wasn't receiving (folks swore they sent it.) I noticed my iPhone has bulk mail folder (Mac and iPad do not) and lo and behold, tons of email that I have been missing. What is this folder? Why does some mail go there and not others? How can I either customize this folder (to get the emails in my "regular" email folder or get rid of it?

What email program are you using?

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Just got my computer repaired at Apple, new harddrive, new video card. So it's starting anew.
However, even my MacBookAir is putting my GOOD MAIL in my JUNK FOLDER. So it's universal on all my devices.
Why is my mail going to my junk folder. It's annoying to have to check every single piece of mail with "this is not junk" and then drag it to the IN box. And then even that doesn't work. I'll still receive the email from the same sender back into my Junk Folder.
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Well, let's put it this way, it was never a problem before. A new harddrive was installed on my computer so I'm starting from scratch. I have no "rules" set yet. My mail supplier is MAC --.mac, .icloud -- mail. So my provider is MAC or APPLE I guess. It's mac mail.
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Never did that before, so there must be some setting, or not, that is causing it to do that.
I have "enable junk mail filtering" checked. The following types of messages are EXEMPT, my address book, previous recipients, messages using my full name, all checked.
Certainly "previous recipients" should not be sent to the junk folder if that option is checked to be exempt.
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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?
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Can't you turn it off completely?
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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

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