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I recommend updating to SpamSieve 3 before updating to macOS 14 Sonoma, if possible. Otherwise, Mail may move good messages to the Junk/Spam mailbox without consulting SpamSieve. SpamSieve 2 will try to prevent this, but it may not have the privacy access that it needs in order to do so. Also, people often manually override SpamSieve’s protections for this, which will cause problems.

The icon in your screenshot is the junk icon. I suspect that you see this on both the white and colored messages, so it is not useful for distinguishing them.

The bottom line is that the messages with white backgrounds were not moved by SpamSieve. Mail does not have a built-in way to separate messages by color. You can, however, use an AppleScript like this:

tell application "Mail"
    set _messages to selected messages of message viewer 1
    repeat with _message in _messages
        if background color of _message is not none then
            delete _message
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

If you select some messages and run the script (e.g. by pasting it into the Script Editor app and clicking Run) it will move the colored ones to the trash.

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