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Use a rule to ignore Gmail spam emails in Mail
Why not just select Googles Spam mail box and then "Mailbox -> Use This Mailbox For... -> Junk" ? That way all the GMail Spam is already Junk and any thing that get through GMail's filters get Junked there as well?
Use a rule to ignore Gmail spam emails in Mail
At least one problem with this that I've run into is the case of false positives. If Mail thinks a message is junk, it marks it as spam and moves the message. If it wasn't really spam and you unmark it, I've found that the Inbox and All Mail folders get out of sync for that message. I think I recall that the message will show up in your Inbox but not in All Mail.
Use a rule to ignore Gmail spam emails in Mail
Why not just select Googles Spam mail box and then "Mailbox -> Use This Mailbox For... -> Junk" ? If you use Google's Spam folder, then you also need to use their Trash folder, because if you use their Spam folder without using their Trash folder, then deleting a message in the spam folder in your mail client tells Google that that message is not spam, and that messages like it should not be filtered as spam in the future for you or for others. On the other hand, if you do use Google's Trash folder, then you get other bizarre and counterintuitive consequences, like the fact that deleting a message from one folder causes it to disappear from every folder. The best way I've found to use Mail.app with GMail is to use GMail's Sent and Drafts folders and custom "IMAP-Spam" and "IMAP-Trash" tags for my Spam and Trash folders. Then Mail.app's "Delete" button essentially becomes Google's "Archive" button, and if you ever want to really delete a message (from all folders including All Mail), then you can drag that message to Google's Trash folder.
Use a rule to ignore Gmail spam emails in Mail
It doesn't actually matter what folder you select, but of course it makes the most sense to choose GMail's spam folder. The idea being that messages Mail thinks are junk will never actually leave the inbox. This way, you're relying entirely on GMail to process what is junk and what is not. |
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