Is there a way to mark as "not junk" mail?

PJS415,

Have you tried adding the school's Email address to your Contacts?

Supposedly this works for some, but I can't recall whether it is recommended for Junk for for Spam. 😟

I, too, would like all contents of the Junk folder to have a <Not Junk> possibility.

Yes, adding addresses to contacts is a good start. You might also try amending the Junk Mail Advanced settings to avoid mis-marking certain mail as junk. For instance, if Mail is filtering out mail list messages that have a common set of list-identifying characters in the subject, such as [abcd], then add a condition such as "Subject does not contain [abcd]" to the list of conditions that identifies mail as junk.

The customary "Not Junk" button was for unexplained reasons not displaying on messages wrongly put in Junk mail. But this technique of Message -> Apply Inbox Rules restored the "Not Junk" button. Thank you.

It's infuriating. I'm using an Office 365 account and there is simply no "Not junk" button. A message will be marked as junk when it comes in, but the button in the toolbar (and on right-click, and in "Message>Mark") only includes the option to mark it as "junk." Again.

I can click the "junk" button, which then turns to a "not junk" button. But clicking that has no effect on the message itself: Mail continues to see the message as "junk."

Adding conditions to the preferences has no effect on the mail's designation as junk or not junk.

An annoying glitch.

What color is the mail that is marked as Junk? Brown, or Black?

(If it is Brown it was marked as Junk by Apple Mail, if Black it was marked by your email provider)

Yes, doing this gives the option of marking as not junk, but then when you mark it as not junk you are back to square 1. It doesn't move it out of the junk folder!

Yes, but there's no way to move it… ah ha! You can just drag & drop it!! So open your junk mail folder, and drag individual messages to the inbox. SHEESH!

Wow, a lot of bad answers for this question.

CORRECT ANSWER - there are TWO WAYS an email can be marked "junk"

1 - In your mac's Mail program – You can mark a message JUNK and apple mail will remember and attempt to do the same with similar emails.

IF THIS HAPPENS when you select the message there will be a big yellow bar with a button marked "NOT JUNK" and a a thumbs up in the toolbar above.

2 - YOUR EMAIL PROVIDER can mark your mail junk. This means Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. - marked the file as JUNK and then you WILL NOT SEE
THE YELLOW BAR and WILL NOT BE ABLE TO UN-JUNK the message.

You will need to sign in to Hotmail, Google's Gmail, Yahoo Mail etc and mark it NOT JUNK there.

It will remember and treat similar messages the same.

No, neither of these work for many of us. Please show us more respect and note that many people have reported not having the option of a toolbar or of turning the thumbs back up.

I found this very helpful, but what puzzles me still is that, quite often, the email provider that is putting the mail in my junk folder is Apple iCloud. In other words, there doesn't seem to be any coordination between what the iCloud mail server and my Apple Mail client consider to be junk.

I finally fixed this by adding the sender to my contacts and setting up a rule under preferences that sends any email from one of my contacts to my inbox. In my case I was not getting notifications from Google Drive. Fixed now.

Thank you so much!!!!!

On mine, I finally figured out one of the updates turned my Junk Mail filter off so I had no options. I understand I was probably slow on the uptake so nothing implied about others.

There is no option to mark mail as junk or not junk in MacOS Sierra. You can move a message to the junk folder or you can move a message from the junk folder to the inbox folder. My question is are these options the same as marking mail junk or not junk?

I don't have these options on the right side, only "Move to Inbox," and the message still looks like junk in the Inbox.