My "Not Junk" button is missing

What would I have set up that colours things brown? I am using out-of-the-box Apple Mail. I haven't set any colour options up. Where would I look to find out? Where would I look to confirm whether the status is Junk or Not Junk?

hi,

Some Notes.

A set up that started at OS X 10.6(.0) and had the Updates as they occurred and then had OS X 10.7 installed and it's follow up updates in turn followed by OS X 10.8 will follow a slightly different path on a Reinstall from a clean OS X 10.6

If you then install Lion (OS X 10.7) it will download and Install the latest version of that when using the App Store.

This will be repeated for Mountain Lion.

For me I prefer my Junk Button to be on the right near my Delete Button but as a separate item.

I prefer the ability to "miss" when trying to Click it rather than sometimes deleting something.

My Mail > View Menu > Customise Tool Bar looks like this:-

I must admit I have reduced the size of this pic but I hope you can see enough detail.

With the red text I highlight the default Layout (Delete and Junk together with Junk on the right)

I use the blue option - individual icons dragged into the order I want/prefer

The green items point out an alternative Dual Button but junk on the Left.

The Blue one also highlights that if you select an item in the Junk folder the icon Changes as does it's action.

I see from earlier pics Barney seems to be using the default (red) layout.

I also have things moved to a Junk Folder

This Junk Folder is what is behind the Custom settings.

I am not sure what you meant by round and oblong buttons.

9:32 pm Tuesday; November 26, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

Hi,

Glad to hear things are sorted.

6:51 pm Wednesday; November 27, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

I am having the same problem. I am receiving junk mail that bypasses Apple's junk mail filtering and goes directly to my inbox. I cannot select "Mark As Junk" because the only icon available is "Mark As Not Junk" and you cannot add the Thumbs Down "Mark As Junk" button from the options menu. This is really irritating as I have to manually move all of these to my junk mail folder and it will not train Apple's junk mail filtering to catch them. This is some nasty spam that is getting through the spam headers AND tripping up Apple mail's junk mail tagging. And forwarding these as attachments to spam@me.com does nothing. I have done that for years and Apple doesn't do anything about treating spam seriously like they claim. Really frustrated with Apple mail and spam.

No I am using my iCloud account, not gmail. I am getting spam in my inbox NOT already marked as junk and cannot mark as junk.

Dude you obviously did NOT listen to what I wrote! I JUST said:

I have even deleted my mailboxes and rebuilt them, doesn't help.

Just don't even bother. You are NOT helping.

Well, keep chasing your tail, then. The messages are marked as junk. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to mark it as "Not Junk." It's either on or off, unless the database is corrupt.

If you don't get any of those things, it is not marked as Junk.

Whatever you have set up is coloring it brown, but it is not marking it as Junk.

kgpmcn, did you ever solve this? 😮

Thanks, Esther!!