Issues With Apple Mail...

[Bazzy]

Hi All,

I have a 2015 rMBP running Monterey 12.7.6 & Mail Version 16.0 (3696.120.41.1.10).

I have multiple email accounts in the Mail Sidebar.

However, the Junk Folder that was there in previous MacOS Versions is not there anymore.

If I accidentally delete emails from the Delete Tab in the Top Menu Bar, often (but not always), when I select Undo Delete, nothing happens - the email(s) I just deleted do do appear back in Mail.

Previously, I was able to just go in to the Junk Folder & recover them but now am not able to do so with the Junk Folder missing.

How can I get the Junk Folder back so I can recover deleted emails & why is Undo Delete not working on some emails & working on others?

Many Thanks

 

[Ruggy]

There are a couple of ways of doing this if your junk folder is really gone.
Someone else will probably tell you different but the first thing would be to create a new folder and call it something like junk .
Then you go to the bar at the top - Mail>settings>accounts.
For each email account you will see 3 tabs 'Account info, 'Mailbox Behavior' and' Account settings'.
(I assume. I haven't updated to Tahoe yet so apologies if this is no longer true but it has been for the last 16 years)
Choose Mailbox behaviour and and there is a setting for the junk mailbox.
Point it at the folder you have created and do this for each of your mailboxes.Then they will all be in one folder.

 

[Bazzy]

Hi Ruggy,

Thanks kindly for the reply!

Do I have to create a separate Junk Folder for each of my various email addresses? I ask as I recall in my previous MacOS versions, there was just a single Junk Folder in the Mail App Sidebar?

How would I go about creating a new Folder & naming it Junk that will act & serve for all my various email addresses? Say I have 10 email addresses - if possible, I would like a Single Junk Folder to serve them all?

Many Thanks!

 

[adrianlondon]

Deleted mails go to the trash/bin not the junk folder.

Also, I've noticed if I delete a mail and then quickly ⌘Z to undo the delete, it "vanishes". It actually ends up in a mailbox called "Recovered mails" or some such in the "On My Mac" mailbox.