Is there an option somewhere to show / not show Junk folder?ĪHA! Yes, in Mail -> Preferences under the Junk Mail tab is: , Sent, Junk, Trash.īut on my Mini and iMac no Junk folder, just Inbox. On my MBA I can see the regular Inbox and the Junk folder with messages filtered out by Mac Mail and I can see the Spam folder down under Gmail as described. Then Mac Mail does its filtering on all mail passed in from Gmail and marks a few as junk. It appears that Gmail applies their filtering and puts stuff in their Spam box which is the same as I would see in a browser.

Now I just learned from above how to find the Gmail Spam mailbox so that's great to know. I have Mountain Lion on all 3 Macs, latest patch and am usiing Gmail also. I show no Junk folder at all on 2 of my Macs but it's there on 1 Mac. How can make the Mac Mail Junk folder visible? - see bottom, I just found it. Other servers will have their own folder structure. If I click on the disclosure triangle left of the '' folder, voila!īy the way, this intermediate '' folder is specific to Gmail, Google Apps mail sites, and other mail sites using Google's Gmail code, as is the All Mail folder.

If I hover my cursor over the oval with '41' in it, the oval shifts left and 'Show' appears.

The Gmail Spam folder you seek is two folders deep inside your Gmail account. Before Lion, the top-level lines would have standard disclosure triangles to their left like folders, but Lion Mail removed that visual clue in favor of a word 'Show' or 'Hide' to the right that appears only when you mouse over it. Each of those lines may have subordinate lines indented below it, or they may be hidden. In the mailbox list, below the word 'MAILBOXES' and the standard mailboxes (Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash, & Junk), you should have some lines like 'SMART MAILBOXES', 'REMINDERS', 'RSS', 'ON MY MAC', and a line with the name of each of your mail accounts.

Gmail spam folder missing