Prevent junk mail in Mail from counting as new

Mar 28, '05 09:15:00AM

Contributed by: ropers

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:

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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