How do you delete bulk mail folder in Mail program?

Charlie, I'm putting the answer here so all can see.

First open the email app. Go to the left panel and click once in the folder named 'bulk email'.

Then go to the mail app top menu bar and locate word 'file'.

Click in that and find 'delete folder'. Click on that and you will get a warning

that once done, it cannot be undone. Click ok and no more bull email folder.

Now I'm doing this from memory at work so tomorrow I will make sure

that this is correct and if not, will post corrections.

Greg

Well everyone, my solution did not last. I signed back in and there was the bulk mail folder.

I did find a thread elsewhere in yahoo that said to change your account email in yahoo

POP setting to ignore the bulk mail and keep it from downloading, but mine was setup like that so it doesn't work.

I'll see what I can find out and report back here by sunday. Greg

Okay guys... it appears I had to log out of the mail app and log back in.

No bulk mail folder!

I also tried this link out and it seems to work as well.

http://email.about.com/cs/macosxmailtips/qt/et062303.htm

Good luck I have no more bulk mail folder using either method!

Bulk mail is spam. To empty the bulk mail, log on to yahoo in safari and delete spam mailbox and all those mails will be deleted. Don't think you can actually delete the folder coz it's a yahoo mail thing to help you separate real email from spam. Need to check that folder occasionally coz you'll find real emails there too. Hope this helps.

Mr Hoffman you are amazing! Thank you for helping me manage my ''Bulk Mail". It was starting to take on a life of its own.

Can't you install a 3rd party app instead to solve this issue? As in, to receive emails and mark certain ones as 'unwanted'

I have the same problem. I want to get rid of the bulk mail folder on my Mac air. I have a PC that doesn't have a bulk folder with the same yahoo e-mail. I appreciated all your comments. Thanks Bob

I am trying to figure out if everyone is wanting to delete their "Bulk" mail that is in the "att.net" group? If so, here is what I did: I deleted the whole group. First, make sure you go into your ATT Yahoo mail using your browser and logging in to your mail online. Then delete all your inbox mail you don't need. Second, open your mail from your mail app on your mac. Third, open the mail preferences, then click on "Accounts". Fourth, click on the "att.net" or "Yahoo" account on the left side of the window. Just in case take a picture or write down your incoming and outgoing server info, you shouldn't need it, but you never know. Fifth, now that your ATT account is high lighted, click the - (minus) at the bottom to delete the account, then confirm. Sixth, now click the + to add the account back, put in your ATT or Yahoo email address and password and follow the screen questions. After that you might have to quit the Mail program and open it back up. Now you will notice the group of mail boxes with the "Bulk" mail box are gone. You will notice all the emails in your "Inbox" will show "Unread". I believe it IS yahoo adding this group of mailboxes.

My apologies for resuscitating such old thread; but this is where google took me when trying to rid my Mail.app of that bulk folder. None of the solutions posted in the thread worked for me. I hope the person willing to give out their tooth and other body parts is still all in one piece so he can pay me.

Here's how I did it:

1. right click on a folder under Yahoo! on the left side of the mail.app window.

2. Select the menu item that says "Edit Yahoo..."

3. Select tab 'Advanced'

4.Type "[Yahoo]" in IMAP path prefix

5. Done, close settings window check mailboxes under Yahoo! for successful change.

Charlie7:"eye teeth" please; whatever that is.

I may have found another easy solution. Within my Outlook for Mac 2011 I went to 'Accounts', selected the Yahoo Inbox in the left-hand column, then Advanced, then Folders, then down to Junk on the left 'store junk messages in folder' switched it from 'Bulk' to Trash (Server), then OK. Then back to my Outlook Window, Tools from top menu, then IMAP folders, made sure the yahoo account is selected in the left column, then unsubscribed from Bulk. (If I hadn't done the prior step of routing Junk msgs to trash folder the unsubscribe button would have remained greyed out and unusable.) So far, the spam still goes into the webmail yahoo spam folder, but I never see it on my computer, even if I open up the yahoo trash folder. Apparently junk now goes directly to trash folder. My hope is that it does this right at the yahoo server level and never even makes it to my computer with all those virus and trojan files. IMAP would seem to work that way, since those folders I see on my computer are supposedly just mirrors of the server folders. The ultimate test will be when I restart my computer and see if all this holds.

Yes, the solution holds after re-starting computer.

Note that mine is a POP not IMAP email account if that makes any difference.

Correction: main mac outlook 2011 account is POP but Yahoo is IMAP.

Further feedback: I have found that in the outlook accounts window on the left --when outlook is open--you must make sure when you Quit Outlook that the Yahoo account is closed, with only the account name visible, not the submenus of inbox, sent etc. If it is not closed the bulk folder will return again and start collecting all of yahoo's spam.