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Identifying mail marked as junk; marking and unmarking mail as junk

I use several different macs to read my mail from an imap server. Each has developed its own junk mail filtering rules. I'd like to merge the rules, and keep them merged. Is there a way to merge ...
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Mail.app button to explicitly move to Junk without built-in filtering

I'd like to create a button in Mountain Lion's Mail.app to move mail to an IMAP folder called Junk, much like the Archive button moves mail to my IMAP Archive folder. (This folder is automatically ...
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How do I export mail.app rules to other filtering solutions such as procmail?

In the past I handled email filtering using Mail.app's Rules. I want to move my filters out of Mail.app and into another solution, such as a centrally-organized IMAP + procmail setup. Is it possible ...
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Save attachments from Mail.app based on subject

I have been trying to write an Applescript to help me saving attachments, but realized quickly that I do not have the knowledge to do such a difficult script. Here is some background. We receive ...
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Apple Mail “Smart” Mailboxes - ignore replies and forwards?

I've got a Smart Mailbox setup in Apple Mail to gather meeting notes I send out. I use rules to select all messages that start with "meeting notes" and are from my email address. Unfortunately, Mail ...
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Why doesn't this simple applescript work any more in ML mail.app (as a rule)

It works only when you right click on the mail message and choose "run rules", but not on incoming messages (without interaction). The first dialog is shown both when incoming or running manually, ...
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Efficient creation of filtering rules in Mail.app

I have selected a received email in Mail.app and would like to create a rule to redirect all emails from the same sender to a specific folder. I know how to create such rules manually from the ...
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How do I set up a Mail.app rule for removing attachments?

While Mail.app offers a menu item for removing attachments from e-mail, I find myself wanting to make a rule for removing attachments from e-mails. Anyone knows how that can be done? AppleScript, ...
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Smart mailbox for senders who are not members of a group

I want to set up a smart mailbox in Mail that contains messages from any sender who is not a member of a particular group in my address book. There's an option in the smart mailbox rules for "sender ...
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Apple Mail - Do not apply rules automatically

As I understand it, active Apple Mail rules automatically get applied when mail comes into the Inbox. Is there a way to prevent rules from being applied automatically, so that they are only applied ...
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Address smart group based on mailbox? Or Tags?

I have manually created mailboxes in Mail and would like to create a rule that moves all future email from those senders who currently exist in one of those mailboxes to be sent to the same mailbox. ...
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Migrating Mail.app rules from 10.6 to 10.8

I want to move my Mail.app filtering rules from my old 10.6 machine to a fresh 10.8 install. I've seen people talking about moving these by copying over MessageRules.plist, but I haven't seen anyone ...
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How do I write a Mail.app rule to mark messages as read in one mailbox but leave them as unread in my in-box?

I have a Mail.app rule that copies certain incoming messages into an archive mailbox. I'd like those messages to be marked as read in the archive mailbox but remain unread in my in-box until I ...
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Advanced Mail Rule

I want to write a rule like that does the following: act on all messages from contacts that are in my address book do move it to the folder <known> except if another rule matches ...