This used to work and you even had a tutorial for it, which I used effectively.
At this point - with the new version, and while I’m still training emails as junk or good - I’d prefer that SS automatically move junk mails from spam to trash - then I can continue marking the good and bad and later have them auto delete as well.
If you had Mail and SpamSieve set up to use the Trash before, that will continue working with macOS Ventura. You can just edit the rule in Mail’s settings:
to move the messages to All Trash instead of All Junk.
With macOS Sonoma, this is instead configured in the SpamSieve settings:
One last question - how do I then get them to auto delete when I’m confident it’s junk
Post-covid there’s so much more now - I can only think that scammers taught themselves how to spell, then how to design and actually look like whoever they’re emulating.