Junk mail in Apple Mail still put into Inbox

Thank you, and I won't bounce any more messages. I didn't give any of the groups my email address, though. All I can think of that my cursor (which is kind of twitchy) accidentally took me to a Website for one of the groups (possibly, it was in the margin of a Facebook list). I got out of the Website without clicking on anything, but somehow, even having been on that page for a second or two encouraged that group to think that I'd receive their mail and to give my address to other groups of the same ilk. I've no idea how they got my address.

I am pretty much resigned now that I'll continue to get messages from groups like that (there seem to be more and more, so they must be sharing the address). What I can't understand is why the messages aren't being sent directly to Junk. Many legitimate messages end up there, and I have to mark them "Not junk" and transfer them to my inbox. Why wouldn't mail that I've consistently marked as junk not be sent there? Is there something I can do to alert the Apple Mail software that I want that? (It hasn't entirely caught on with some of the legit mail I get, but I think it's getting a little better.)

Thanks again for your message. At least, I've learned to ask Mail to bounce messages. I read, in the Help section on unwanted messages that that was the thing to do, but I won't do it, anymore.

Best,

Jenny

Thank you, Eric Root, for your thoughtful answer, but that's the way I've already got it marked. I did, however, change the setting that allowed mail from my previous recipients, so maybe the unwanted mail will now go there after I mark it as junk. Of course, that will mean that Mail (which mistakenly marks some of my very-much-wanted mail as junk, but I hope that after a while, that will cease as I take the junk marking off the wanted mail and transfer it to my inbox. At least, Mail doesn't put wanted mail into the Junk folder as often as Gmail does. Gmail's filtering is really over the top, but they don't seem to catch some of the mail I hate to get.

I shall persist, though, and hope that in time it will all get straightened out.

Thanks again,

Jenny

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