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IMAP Keyword - Does 'Junk' mean 'Spam'?
I use IMAP mail hosted with Google. I have a learning label in Opera that applies the IMAP keyword "Junk" to any mail I assign the label to and it hides those messages from my other views.Shortly after I mark a message as junk, the messages will reappear in my inbox without the Junk label and marked as spam instead.
My "Junk" mail is not spam--it's not unsolicited mail, it's just junk I'm typically not interested in.
Is Junk a reserved IMAP keyword for marking Spam? Should I be using a different keyword? Or is something going wrong with Opera?
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$Junk and $NotJunk are keywords for spam that you shouldn't use. It's possible that Opera and or Gmail IMAP looks for just "junk" too just to be robust.
I added this warning and some more info to <http://my.opera.com/operawiki/forums/topic.dml?id=1132942> for future reference.
To test if it's Opera doing it or Gmail IMAP, try it in thunderbird by adding a message to a tag named "junk". Thunderbird should add "junk" as a keyword on the message and if it ends up in Gmail's spam and mail.google.com for example, then it's the server that's probably doing it.
Either way, I'd avoid "junk".
You might want to test if "my_junk" as the same effect or not.
I added this warning and some more info to <http://my.opera.com/operawiki/forums/topic.dml?id=1132942> for future reference.
To test if it's Opera doing it or Gmail IMAP, try it in thunderbird by adding a message to a tag named "junk". Thunderbird should add "junk" as a keyword on the message and if it ends up in Gmail's spam and mail.google.com for example, then it's the server that's probably doing it.
Either way, I'd avoid "junk".
You might want to test if "my_junk" as the same effect or not.
It looks like it's a Opera applying the logic that treats messages with "junk" keyword as "spam". So does Thunderbird for that matter. The Gmail web interface doesn't show those messages as spam when they have the junk keyword applied.
A difference with Opera and Thunderbird is that Opera drops the messages from the Junk label once it marks it as spam. But thunderbird will both maintain the label (tag) and mark it as spam--although it doesn't appear in the spam folder, it just appears in the usual place marked with a flame.
It's a shame they don't only apply these rules when the $ symbol is used--it's a good seperator between a users keywords and the systems keywords.
I'll just use a different keyword. Thanks for your input.
A difference with Opera and Thunderbird is that Opera drops the messages from the Junk label once it marks it as spam. But thunderbird will both maintain the label (tag) and mark it as spam--although it doesn't appear in the spam folder, it just appears in the usual place marked with a flame.
It's a shame they don't only apply these rules when the $ symbol is used--it's a good seperator between a users keywords and the systems keywords.
I'll just use a different keyword. Thanks for your input.
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