I accidentally marked someone as junk mail. How do I reverse it? Thank you!

I accidentally marked someone as junk mail. How do I reverse it? Thank you!

MacBook Pro, iOS 10.3.3

Posted on Aug 9, 2018 9:18 AM

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Posted on Aug 9, 2018 10:16 AM

When you mark an email as junk it is moved to the Junk email folder. Simply click on the Junk folder, select the email you marked as junk and click the Not Junk. The caveat here is that if you emptied your Junk folder that email is deleted immediately and cannot be restored.


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Aug 9, 2018 10:16 AM in response to bernadette255

When you mark an email as junk it is moved to the Junk email folder. Simply click on the Junk folder, select the email you marked as junk and click the Not Junk. The caveat here is that if you emptied your Junk folder that email is deleted immediately and cannot be restored.


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Aug 9, 2018 11:19 AM in response to bernadette255

I'm assuming that you are solely using your iCloud email account to receive these emails. If so, the other place to look is to log into iCloud.com with your Apple ID. Then run the Mail app there.


In the lower-left corner, you should find a little "gear" icon. Click on that, and then, click on "Rules." Here you can check to see if any rules have been created.

Sep 7, 2018 12:25 PM in response to Tesserax

I have a rule moving a person's emails into a specific folder. This person is also in my contacts list, and my junk filter says if someone is in my contact list, don't put into junk folder. However, his mail is going into the junk folder. I have repeatedly told Mail that this person's email is not junk and still it continues.Any tips? (I've been using Mac since 1988.)


Another recent problem is that my outbound email is ending up in my recipient's email. I have no idea how to fix, and most searches are for the reverse. Love some help with this!! :-)

Sep 8, 2018 7:03 PM in response to Eric Root

Hi Eric, thanks for responding.


I have had my mac.com email for about 25 years (or whenever they first started). Sometime during the last month, people tell me that the emails I'm sending are landing in their junk folders. I have to call and check for business emails, and ask them to look in their spam or junk folder, and they find the email I sent them in one of those folders.


I realized that my BCCs to myself were landing in my junk folder. I have reset my junk filtering, and stopped it from happening on my computer. But I can't change what's happening to all my friends, and new contacts.


It's almost as if my email has been flagged by some Internet database as a "bad" email.


Any suggestions are welcome.


Penny

Sep 8, 2018 7:42 PM in response to Eric Root

Eric, thanks for the quick response!


Most of the people who are receiving my emails are Windows users. Not sure how to tutor them about their junk mail filtering. And I communicate with too many people to want to teach each one how to change something on their computer so they can get my emails.


More to the point, though, I am on the Board of Directors of my condo. I recently had to communicate with the county regarding some permits. My emails kept going into her spam folder, causing delays.


In another instance, I requested a quote from an engineering firm. Fortunately they called to follow-up, asking where my request was. I had sent it and it also went into their junk folder. Three days lost.


I think there may be something in the header data that is flagging my email.

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