Re: Change default junk folder

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?
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