Hi, I guess you migrated from a very old version of James. As I know, James has used Spam as the default mailbox name for several years.
There is no supported configuration setting to rename the default mailboxes, as far as I know. The default mailbox names are hardcoded in DefaultMailboxes. I recommend using the built-in Spam mailbox for new accounts. Although its visible name is Spam, James exposes the appropriate special-use semantics: IMAP \Junk and JMAP role junk. Clients should therefore rely on the special-use metadata or role rather than the literal mailbox name. Existing Junk mailboxes can be kept as legacy folders. For migration, you could move the existing messages from *Junk* to *Spam*. If you really insist on not creating the Spam mailbox for new accounts, provisionDefaultMailboxes=false can disable automatic provisioning, but it does not provide a way to rename Spam to Junk. I hope it helps. Regards, Quan On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 9:28 AM Scoopta via server-user < [email protected]> wrote: > I noticed in more recent versions of james the default junk folder is > now spam, this isn't ideal since I have a lot of existing accounts that > use the junk folder name, I don't want new accounts to use a different > folder name, how can I adjust the default folder creation settings? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
