As you know, the Junk folder has a feature where the user can specify
that messages older than nn days are automatically deleted (actually,
moved to Trash).
Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings | Junk Settings
[x] Automatically delete junk mail older than nn days
It turns out that his wording is easily misunderstood. The phrase "junk
mail" does not mean "messages in the Junk folder"; it means "messages
tagged as Junk."
The Junk folder can receive messages in three ways:
1) When a message is tagged as Junk, SM automatically moves it to the
Junk folder if the user has set this preference:
Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Junk & Suspect Mail
When I mark messages as junk
(•) Move them to the account's "Junk" folder
2) When a message is moved to the Junk folder by a user-defined filter
3) When the user manually moves a message to the Junk folder.
Most users probably assume that any message that lands in Junk is
equally subject to the same aging policy.
It turns out that only messages tagged as Junk are deleted
automatically. But messages arriving in the Junk folder that are not
marked as Junk remain there indefinitely.
So my advice is that when creating filters that move messages to the
Junk folder, users should remember to include Junk marking as one of the
actions taken. And when manually moving messages to Junk, the right way
of doing it is to simply hit "J" to tag the message as Junk and let SM
do the move itself.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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