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Prevent junk mail in Mail from counting as new Apps
This is extremely trivial, but maybe it's a useful pointer regardless ... it has always annoyed me that junk mail, even when recognized as such, still contributes towards Mail.app's email count as displayed in the application's Dock icon. I should add that my junk filter is in perpetual training, as I still get false positives every now and then. The solution is simple:
  • Go to Mail: Preferences: Junk Mail: Advanced.
  • Under "Perform the following actions", click the plus button (+).
  • Select "Mark as read".
That's it. No more eager interrupting what you're doing just to find that another piece of spam has arrived.

[robg adds: I believe this issue is self-correcting once you tell Mail to exit training mode; my default rule, which I'm reasonably certain I never edited, contains the 'mark as read' option.]
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Prevent junk mail in Mail from counting as new
Authored by: ms_t_rie on Mar 28, '05 10:23:22AM

Thank you for the tip, I too have been annoyed at that! :)

It was NOT set on by default in my setup and I didn't know enough about how Mail worked to turn it off. So there must be at least some versions that come with the default set to off.



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Prevent junk mail in Mail from counting as new
Authored by: jonbauman on Mar 28, '05 12:05:19PM

Since I get very little spam, I prefer to leave Mail.app in training mode to make sure that I don't miss anything. However, it would be nice if messages that I explicitly marked as junk were moved to the junk folder automatically. Any ideas? (I'm sure I could do this in Applescript, but it would be nice to have it tied into the junk button on the toolbar instead.)

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jon



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Prevent junk mail in Mail from counting as new
Authored by: chidimaar on Mar 28, '05 07:14:04PM

This is the default behavior in Mail at least in my experience! Anytime I want to designate an email as junk, all I do is click on the little "nuclear waste bag" icon in the toolbar and the message is appropriately labeled and sent off to the Junk folder.

My junk mail filter is set to Automatic, so maybe that's part of it.

Also, does the junk mail filter actually stop learning about new spam once you switch it to automatic? My impression is that the learning never stops as you continue to mark new / missed spam messages as junk. Is that not the case?



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Prevent junk mail in Mail from counting as new
Authored by: simonpie on Mar 29, '05 09:39:22AM

You can also move all your junk mail to a different imap directory (even in training mode). This way, the only thing mail will do is write inbox in bold in the drawer (but no number and no sound on mail arrival). I find it also easier to verify my spam and only delete the spam by moving it to a local trash can and then emptying the local trash can.



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