I’m using the latest Spamsieve (3.12) and MacOS (15.4.1) versions. Spam is now showing up in Bulk Mail boxes in Apple Mail. I then select them and manually train as spam with SpamSieve. I’ve tried to setup SpamSieve to filter the Bulk mailbox, but there is no checkbox next to the Bulk in the Apple Mail settings. Yahoo doesn’t seem to be filtering for spam, as the Spam box is empty. And I have turned off Junk mail filtering in Apple Mail settings.
I looked at the log and found a few errors that might be helpful. (See screenshot). Frankly, I get overwhelmed when things like this happen and hate to ‘open the hood’ to troubleshoot. Any advice on what to do here would be helpful. Thank you.
The Bulk mailbox is where the Yahoo server junk filter moves the messages that it thinks are spam. These messages are not SpamSieve mistakes and should not be trained as spam.
If it says Bulk in Apple Mail, that means your account isn’t set up properly in Mail. You should tell it to use Bulk as the Junk mailbox (and then it will show up as Junk) and SpamSieve will use that, too.
Michael, thank you. I did as you said and my special Junk mailbox is back now (and the Bulk mailbox has "disappeared”)……great! All my accounts seem to be normal now.
The key was in the directions: "For each IMAP or Gmail account, next to Junk Mailbox, choose the junk or spam mailbox that’s inside your account (not the one under On My Mac).” I had inadvertently set mine to “All Junk” and thus the problem. All the best!
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