my "mail" app has no "junk" option listed in the sidebar,
messages I move to "trash" are not in my "trash",
and in the sidebar is a Smart Mailbox-which I never created- and it contains all the saved mail from all the other mailboxes that I did create in my sidebar.
There is one for each account, and also one for "On My Mac". Since you have two accounts, there three trashes, for example.
That is perfectly normal. You twirl that "All Trashes" closed and not worry about the separate trashes.
Note: they also each appear further down the sidebar, together with the mailboxes for each account.
If you dopn't want the Smart Mailbox, just control-click and choose Delete Mailbox...
Smart Mailboxes do not actually contain messages, they just reference the messages that meet the criteria defining the Smart Mailbox; so by deleting you are not deleting any messages.
If you want to see te junk messages, hover your cursor near the word Favorites, click the cirlcled plus sign, and add "All Junk":
It took 2 screenshots-but thanks for pursuing this:
Thank you so much! this is what the top part of my sidebar looks like now. Why are there multiple "trash", "drafts" "sent"?
Could you post a screenshot of your Sidebar (anonymising anything private, of course)?
It is wonderful to have had you come to my rescue several times now-what a blessing your expertise is to me and others! thanks a million, Luis, from Kristi
Thank you for your kind words. I am glad I could help.
my "mail" app has no "junk" option listed in the sidebar, etc.
