junk mailbox disappeared

Mmm ... sorry that was no help.

Looks like we are being giving a lot more control in Mail using Ventura:

There's an Apple Support article that may be more help ... ie: if you have IMAP

accounts: Change Mailbox Behaviours settings in Mail on Mac – Apple Support

(For Ventura) says:

"Use Mailbox Behaviors settings in Mail to change where draft, sent, junk, deleted and archived messages for an email account are stored.

To change these settings in the Mail app on your Mac,

choose Mail > Settings, click Accounts, then click Mailbox Behaviours.

Note: Mail stores messages in the mailbox you specify for each option".

(NB: There are more explanatory details in the article itself)

Continues:

"Junk Mailbox:

Choose a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store junk messages.

This option is available only for IMAP accounts.

Note: Select this option on each Mac where you use your account, to avoid having two Junk mailboxes in the Mail sidebar."

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Other "junk Mail" articles for Ventura:

Mail can filter junk mail from your inbox, based on what it learns from you when you mark email messages as junk or not junk, as well as your Junk Mail settings

Reduce junk mail in Mail on Mac – Apple Support

If Mail on your Mac doesn't flag junk Mail and spam correctly:

suggestions to improve the junk mail filter

ie:change options for managing junk mail and blocked senders.

Change Junk Mail settings in Mail on Mac – Apple Support

If the Mail app on your Mac incorrectly identifies junk mail : suggestions

If junk mail filters aren’t working in Mail on Mac – Apple Support

and

Change the criteria that Mail uses to identify junk mail when you receive eMails

Change Junk Mail Advanced settings in Mail on Mac – Apple Support

Hi nmk272,

Welcome to the Apple (user-to-user) Community.

Am using Monterey, but again, there is no junk folder in the usual spot.

Found a junk folder for each eMail account (Eg: under Yahoo, Google etc)

at the very bottom of all my "On my Mac" mailboxes.

All the best :-)

Thank you for your reply, nmk272.

Grateful to know you solved the situation, are are sharing the results for all to see.

Cheers.