I have a strange problem with Apple Mail and SpamSieve.
Studio M1 Ultra
Sequoia 15.1
Mail 16.0
SpamSieve 3.0.5
Some background:
I have several email accounts, all IMAP. In addition, I have several “On My Mac” (local) mailboxes where I offload mail once read. Sent/Junk/Trash are set to local folders.
A few OS versions back, Mail changed the way things are handled. I still have the “All Trash,” “All Sent,” “All Drafts” sections. However, I now also have numerous “Trash,” "Drafts, “Sent,” and “Junk” in the “On My Mac” section. Very annoying and I can find no way to get rid of these.
To work around this problem I have created a Smart Folder to aggregate all spam/junk. It uses the “message is in mailbox” for each online and offline folder. This allows my to see and delete all spam in one place.
Now the problem with SpamSieve:
I recently changed settings to use the Mail Extension. This created several additional “Junk” folders in the “On My Mac” section.
SS is sending some messages to these Junk folders. I included them in my Smart Folder criteria, but these messages do not show up in the Smart Folder. Making matters more difficult, since switching to the extension method, SS is marking many previously good messages as spam. Since these messages are getting moved to “Junk” folders far down my sidebar list, they become easy to miss.
Any idea what is going on with these new “Junk” folders created by SpamSieve?