This is a new one for me and I think it just started with the latest update. macOS Tahoe 26.1, SS 3.2.2. I have good messages ending up in my SpamSieve_iMac folder. Ok fine. I tag them as good, they appear to go away, supposedly to find their home in my IN box, and then come right back into that same folder. Sometimes. And sometimes the messages go where they should. One workaround is to open the messages first so they are now ‘read’ as opposed to ‘unread’. Then it works. I just tried this by opening a message first, training it as good, and it went to my IN box as it should have but then marked as unread. I don’t mind this but it’s just weird.
Which update? The last SpamSieve update was a month ago, as was macOS 26.1.
Which mail program are you using? With Apple Mail on macOS Tahoe, SpamSieve would be moving them to Junk, not to a custom mailbox.
With Apple Mail, this normally indicates either that another Mac is involved or that there’s database corruption. Please see this page.
I’m using Apple Mail. My main computer is my iMac, I have two laptops, and a phone (all Apple). I never set up the folders labeled ‘SpamSieve_iMac’ and ‘SpamSieve_MB’ but there they are.
I can’t recall the exact order of updates because I just update blindly and move on with other things but one of my laptops is fairly new and I only just installed SpamSieve on it the other day so that must have something to do with this. Made sense to me that I would have to train messages all over again on that machine but then this quirk came up.
Maybe it’s just a matter of time, continuing to train since I have that new laptop, before things settle in properly?
You must have, because SpamSieve has never auto-created mailboxes named like that.
Please make sure that you have no Mail rules on either Mac that are configured to use those mailboxes.
Also, the Junk mailbox should be configured to be the same mailbox on each Mac and iOS device.
Please see this page for guidance on multi-Mac setups.
Thanks Michael. I’m going to try preferred option 1 to only run SpamSieve on a single Mac. That said, do I simply quit SpamSieve on the other two Macs or do I need to turn options off in System Settings or anything additional?