Junk Mail Rules

[drdudj]

I have set up dozens of rules to filter out junk mail and to send it to my junk folder. I would much rather have it go to trash and be automatically deleted, but I still get mail now and then from an online merchant or some one new to me and the mail program thinks these are junk, and if I had it automatically deleted, I would never know of those legit emails. I already have a rule to let emails from those in my contact list go to a specific folder and so I know that only those contacts will show up in that folder.

maybe I'm missing something in creating a specific rule? any ideas?
thanxz

 

[0128672]

It's not clear what you're asking for help with. Here's what I got from your post:
- You have junk mail filter rules that sound like they're working.
- You would like junk mail to be automatically deleted but realize you might miss something important.
- You have a rule for your Contacts.

Are you asking how to have junk mail go automatically to Trash except from someone who's in your Contacts?

Are you letting junk mail be determined by the settings or are your rules filtering based on specific domains or addresses?

How do you have Junk Mail settings set up and Account Mailbox Behavior for Erase Junk Mail?

Change Mailbox Behaviors settings in Mail on Mac

In Mail on your Mac, change options for storing draft, sent, junk, deleted, and archived emails.

support.apple.com

 

[drdudj]

It's not clear what you're asking for help with. Here's what I got from your post:
- You have junk mail filter rules that sound like they're working.
- You would like junk mail to be automatically deleted but realize you might miss something important.
- You have a rule for your Contacts.

Are you asking how to have junk mail go automatically to Trash except from someone who's in your Contacts?

Are you letting junk mail be determined by the settings or are your rules filtering based on specific domains or addresses?

How do you have Junk Mail settings set up and Account Mailbox Behavior for Erase Junk Mail?

Change Mailbox Behaviors settings in Mail on Mac

In Mail on your Mac, change options for storing draft, sent, junk, deleted, and archived emails.

support.apple.com

the only problem I really have is that there are emails I receive from senders who are not yet in my Contacts, and once in a while Mail thinks it is junk, and if it gets sent to Trash then it will get deleted when I quit mail.

 

[Significant1]

the only problem I really have is that there are emails I receive from senders who are not yet in my Contacts, and once in a while Mail thinks it is junk, and if it gets sent to Trash then it will get deleted when I quit mail.

The build in spam filter should learn from what is in your spam folder. If it make mistakes, move them to your inbox, to whitelist that sender and avoid that mistake again. Similar the other way around, move unwanted mails to the spam folder, to avoid getting them into your inbox in the future.

Report and reduce spam in iCloud Mail - Apple Support

Learn how iCloud Mail filters out unwanted bulk email messages, also known as junk mail or spam, and how to delete and minimize junk mail.

support.apple.com

 

[0128672]

I agree with @Significant1 that using the built-in Junk Mail options and adjusting your account mailbox behavior settings might be more efficient for what you want. I don't use any Rules for junk mail and it works very well for what you're looking for. And it's a lot less work than creating and maintaining rules.

 

[drdudj]

I agree with @Significant1 that using the built-in Junk Mail options and adjusting your account mailbox behavior settings might be more efficient for what you want. I don't use any Rules for junk mail and it works very well for what you're looking for. And it's a lot less work than creating and maintaining rules.

ok, well, I was trying to control all that junk mail with rules, and that's a headache making a rule for each piece of junk that comes in. will try this method through the built-in junk mail options and see how that goes. thanxz

 

[drdudj]

it's been almost 3 weeks now, and I have deleted all the rules for spam mail. I then allowed spam filtering, and set junk mail to go to the junk folder. from here I can check to make sure all the mail is in fact junk mail, but this is a pain some times, especially when you get 20 pieces of junk at a one time, and then you have to go through them to make sure there's no good mail in there. and I have caught a couple of good emails that I have marked as "not junk." I realize this will then "train" the program to recognize that sender as ok and future mail from them will go to the inbox and not the junk folder. but there are always going to be new people you want to contact you via email, and some of them you don't know how that mail will come in until you receive the first one. so that mail could easily come in to the junk folder, and again you have to go through all of them in that folder that have recently come in and make sure there's no good ones in there by mistake. such a pain, having to deal with junk mail. it seems that the number of junk mails has increased 10 fold in the last 2 years.

 

[gecko579]

Will be interesting if the new iCloud hide My Email will help with this spam proliferation.