[MlMt] Junk folder filling up

[Bill Cole]

On 14 May 2015, at 15:37, Ralph Alvy wrote:

> I notice that all of a sudden, MailMate is filling up my Junk folder.

That seems unlikely. The "Junk" mailbox under the top-level "Mailboxes" 
section of the folder list is a simple merge of each of the IMAP 
mailboxes that MailMate has labeled as "Junk" type, one for each IMAP 
account. Unless you have SpamSieve enabled or have set up your own rules 
associated with mailboxes, MailMate only moves messages from an 
account's Inbox (or other folder) into what it sees as the "Junk" folder 
for that account when you tell it to do so.


> Maybe I never noticed all those messages in there before. Is there a 
> way for me to turn off MailMate’s Junk folder filter?

No, because there is *NO SUCH THING!*

> I have my email server handling that in a different folder. SpamSieve 
> is not enabled in my MailMate settings.


If messages are being moved from your Inbox (or anywhere else) to Junk, 
it is due to one of 4 things:

1. SpamSieve (which you'd need to install and enable in MM, so that's 
not it.)
2. A rule in MailMate associated with the mailbox that's losing messages 
to "Junk"
3. MailMate has the wrong "type" assigned to some IMAP "source" mailbox.
4. Some other IMAP client or server-side gadget moving messages entirely 
apart from MailMate.

My bet is on (4), maybe mixed with (3).

MM allows you to set the type of exactly one mailbox in each IMAP 
account to "Junk". MM moves messages in the same account to that mailbox 
and tags them as junk whenever you use the "Move to Junk" function. The 
actual IMAP mailbox may not be named Junk and you may have an IMAP 
mailbox named Junk that is not the one MM has labeled as THE Junk-type 
mailbox for that account. MM merges all Junk-type mailboxes into its own 
virtual "Junk" mailbox. It also does this with Archives, Drafts, Deleted 
Messages, and Sent Messages. If you have a server-side mechanism of some 
sort delivering message to a "Junk" IMAP mailbox, you should make sure 
that MM has that IMAP mailbox typed as Junk and not some other mailbox. 
You should also make sure the server gadget isn't eagerly sweeping every 
IMAP mailbox looking for messages to analyze and move into whatever 
mailbox it uses for Junk.