[MlMt] Junk folder filling up

[Ralph Alvy]

Following up ... it was the email client on my Android device. Thanks 
again.

On 14 May 2015, at 16:02, Ralph Alvy wrote:

> 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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