[halh]

G5/1.8 Dual Mac OS X (10.4.11) Mail 2.1.3

All of the messages in my Sent Folder are tagged "You marked this message as Junk Mail."

I have been experiencing this issue since the end of March. I have found instances of the problem among a dozen or so other Mac users in various forums, including discussion.apple.com, but no solution.

This is what I know or have tried:

Junk enabled, Automatic, Sender of Message in both Address Book & Previous Recipients selected. No changes made to Advanced options that formerly worked just fine.

I find no settings or Rules that affect Sent mail, other than Automatically Cc: myself, which is NOT selected.

Junk Mail is set to move offending emails to Junk Folder.

At least 90% of the eddressees ARE in my address book, and auto-complete when I type, and in Previous Recipients. As with my own eddress.

I DO NOT have a .Mac account. I recently changed my ISP, but that was done after the issue came up, so no junk screening superimposed.

I have selected Not Junk individually for all Sent messages, but future emails to those same recipients are still tagged as Junk.

I have Reset Junk Mail.

I think I recall a recent Mail update, but may be thinking of Safari. Security Update 2008-002 was installed 31 March(?).

Is there perhaps a .plist, Mail or Preferences, that can be deleted without wreaking havoc on the other laboriously entered Rules?

This is annoying, but not manually insurmountable. I just hate to be annoyed.

Thanks for any help.
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[AstroFoo]

Before switching over to spamsieve for more control, I had this problem too with Apple Junk filtering. I edited the rules to process mail only in the Inbox.

[halh]

Thanks for the ideas, however my issue was with Sent mail, not incoming.

Here's what finally worked:

Under user/Library/Preferences deleted com.apple.mail.plist

When I launched Mail it prompted the start-up assistant, at which point I re-entered my account information.

(Personal) Mailboxes are intact, but Application mailboxes - Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash/Deleted and Junk - will be "empty" and will need to be restored. This can be done one of two ways.

Within the set-up assistant OR

Under File choose Import Mailboxes - Mail for OS X - Continue

From the Import window choose user/Library/Mail/account type (mine was POP) - Continue.

An "Items to Import" list appears. Check the boxes you wish to restore - Continue

A new mailbox named Import appears in the Mailboxes sidebar.

Simply move the messages you need to the corresponding mailboxes above.

My Sent mail is plain and simple again. Took all of 5 minutes. And no expense.

Thanks again.