How to Move eMail from Junk to Inbox on Mail for Mac

How to Move eMail from Junk to Inbox on Mail for Mac

The Mail app for Mac has a built in junk filter which attempts to identify and isolate spam mail from the rest of your emails. For the most part, the Mail Junk filter is pretty good on the Mac, but sometimes its a little too good, and some users may find that Mail on the Mac is erroneously flagging legitimate emails as junk (or spam). When this happens, youll want to move the legitimate emails from the Mail Junk folder to the normal inbox of Mail app on the Mac. There are several ways to move emails from the junk boxes to the regular inboxes of Mail app on a Mac, including targeting specific emails, or groups of multiple emails to move them in bulk. By the way, if you arent already doing this, then its good practice to check your Junk folder on the Mac Mail app somewhat regularly, and to move emails that dont belong there accordingly. The Mail junk filter will learn that a particular sender is no longer spam and will stop putting it into the Junk folders, so its fairly important to check on your Junk folder and to move items to the proper mail inbox when relevant. Another option, albeit a bit more extreme, is to , which will then move all emails into the regular inbox and youll have to sort and flag them yourself. The moved email(s) will now appear in their appropriate inbox. In the example above, I found several legitimate order confirmations that were erroneously flagged as Junk when in fact they were from a real online vendor and from a real purchase I had made. Obviously this is not junk and so I moved those messages to the primary mail inbox. Going further, the Mail app should stop flagging the sender as junk, and future emails from that sender should also appear in the regular inbox but nothing is perfect and youll still want to periodically check to make sure improper emails are not appearing in the Junk folder of Mail for Mac. By the way, you can also right-click (or control+click) an email and choose Move to Inbox too, if you prefer to use a mouse shortcut. It turns out that mouse trick is extra handy when moving multiple emails from Junk inbox to regular mail inboxes, as well show next. You can also select ALL emails in the Junk mailbox by hitting Command+A and then right-clicking and choosing Move to Inbox. Managing junk mail and spam can be a challenge for some users. One helpful strategy that I personally use is to setup an alternate email account (or several), for example on , and use those alternate email addresses for specific purposes, like online shopping, or personal communication only, or something similar. Just dont forget to if you go that route, and youll probably want to while youre at it. It may sound cumbersome to wrangle multiple email accounts, but if you add them all to the Mail app on Mac OS or iOS, then its really not too bad, and it can help to separate work from personal, or hobbies from personal, and maybe even ward off some junk spams to your more important email addresses.