[Zimwy]

Hi,
I've recently gotten a new mac and am wanting to transfer my junk mail files so it knows what's junk still. Can I just transfer the actually mailbox of junk mail? Will it rebuild its index into something the mail program can read? The way mail catagorizes junk is by point-cloud analysis if I remember correctly, so I just wanted to make sure that it redoes its analysis (or at least uses the old one).

Is there anything else I need to transfer?
gabe

[CatOne]

Originally posted by Zimwy:
Hi,
I've recently gotten a new mac and am wanting to transfer my junk mail files so it knows what's junk still. Can I just transfer the actually mailbox of junk mail? Will it rebuild its index into something the mail program can read? The way mail catagorizes junk is by point-cloud analysis if I remember correctly, so I just wanted to make sure that it redoes its analysis (or at least uses the old one).

Is there anything else I need to transfer?
gabe

Use the transfer agent (migration wizard, whatever) to move your files, folders, and applications to the new Mac. It will include the knowledge on junk messages.

[Zimwy]

I actually did do that, but it totally ground the computer to a halt. It was much slower. Now after having reformatted, things are nice and quick again and I'd like to keep it that way

gabe

[Dr. Smoke]

Hi, Zimwy.

The ~/Library/mail/LSMMap* files contain the training for the Junk mail filter of Apple Mail.

In Finder navigation format, that would be the LSMMap* files in your Home > Library > Mail folder.

[aaanorton]

Additionally, I seem to remember reading something about junk mail mssgs needing to be deleted... I think Mail needs you to follow through with deleting the junk mail to complete the learning process. So if you have all your junk mail still in your Junk folder, you'll want to delete it.

[Zimwy]

great, thanks for the help.

gabe