Spam in web.de (filtered by server) are not being recogniuzed

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Hi,

With one of my mail providers (web.de) I am having an issue that SpamSieve does recognise mails which has been filtered by the provider (which I cannot disable).

Such spam mails are moved to the server-side spam folder before it reaches my Mail with Spamsieve.

According to Spamsieve instructions, I have correctly selected the spam folder in my Mail settings, see below.

SCR-20251008-oban
SCR-20251008-oban1242Ă—638 73.3 KB

I cannot add the Spam filter in the SpamSieve settings.

SCR-20251008-obga
SCR-20251008-obga990Ă—298 21.9 KB

Below are two examples of spam, located in the server-side spam folder, but unread, this means that Spamsieve did not scan them.

SCR-20251008-obib
SCR-20251008-obib2348Ă—360 203 KB

I cannot find these mails in Korpus, nor in the logs.

SCR-20251008-obsx
SCR-20251008-obsx1594Ă—362 68 KB

SCR-20251008-obvf
SCR-20251008-obvf1452Ă—380 30.4 KB

How can I enforce SpamSieve to scan also this server-side spam folder as it shows in my local Apple Mail app?

When I move them manually to “TrainSpam” it works as expected, but I’d like to avoid the manual step.

thx
Mike

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What are you trying to accomplish here if the spam messages are already being automatically moved out of your inbox? It is not necessary to train SpamSieve with messages that are not its mistakes.

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Hi Michael,

You do have a point here

Indeed, I wanted to ensure that all Mails are handled by Spamsieve. But you are correct, it’s already correctly recognized as spam and no further action is needed.

Beside that, I am super happy with Spamsieve and how it “just works” with my Apple Mail.

Thank you for a great product!