[Evolution-users] Who decides to put mail in the junk folder?

[Pete Biggs]

> Occasionally but not frequently, mail from correspondents listed in
> my Evolution address book arrives in my Bulk folder.
> 
> I mark the messages as not junk, but even so new messages from the
> same correspondent occasionally arrive in the Bulk folder.

Is "Bulk" the same as "Junk" on your ISP?

> 
> Does Evolution decide to put them there, or is this done by the IMAP
> server at sbcglobal.net, aka yahoo.com aka att.net?

I suspect it's your mail provider doing it, but you can do some checks:

Under Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> Junk  are all the settings as
you want them?  i.e. do you want Evolution to do junk checking? If not
make sure to tell Evolution to not check incoming messages.  If you
want senders in your address book to be immune, then make sure that
option is checked.

Most big mail providers do junk/spam filtering by default - in fact
they will probably be a lot more aggressive than you realise: they will
discard things they know are spam before they even get to your account.
They will possibly also have options to exclude certain things, such as
contents of the address book.  But the server side spam filter is
completely independent of Evolution and marking things as not-junk in
Evolution will not have any affect on it.  Some mail providers learn
from you moving things from the junk folder to the inbox (it seems to
work on iCloud), so you might try that.

P.