[MlMt] Junk folder filling up

[Ralph Alvy]

Thanks for the informative reply. I have followed up with a support 
query to my email server people (Tuffmail).

On 14 May 2015, at 14:27, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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.
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