Right-click the account in your picture, Subscribe..., Refresh. Can you check the box for Spam?

thank you for your assistance, i can check and clear spam with no problem, but the spam folder is still in the trash, i need to know how to get the spam folder out of the trash and back in the main menu

Can you drag the folder and drop it onto the account top level? Did you try to subscribe the Spam folder?

thank you for your assistance, it will not allow me to drag the spam (bulk) folder back into it's proper place in the menu and yes i have tried the subscribe option and that also did not work

You might be able to move or undelete the folder in webmail. Or, maybe if you empty the Trash in TB, compact the folder, Spam will be available in the Subscribe window. As a last resort, you could remove the account, restart TB, and add it again.

thank you for your assistance, the junk folder does not show up in the trash if you log into yahoo mail through a browser, i have deleted the junk folder in TB, only to have it reappear when i restart TB, i have tried removing the account and reinstalling it only to have the same issue. it appears that there is no solution to this issue. i did manage to find a work around called "folder flags", but unfortunately it wasn't compatible with my current version of TB, back to the drawing board i guess

Did you compact Trash after emptying it? You could also open the profile (Help/Troubleshooting Info, Profile Folder, Open Folder), close TB, open ImapMail/imap.mail.yahoo.com, delete Trash and Trash.msf, restart TB, subscribe Trash and Spam.

i've tried all those things and it hasn't fixed the problem. the bulk folder does not appear in the trash when logged into yahoo mail, only when logged into TB, after an exhausting internet search, there does not appear to be a solution to this issue, even though apparently i'm not the only person to have done this. hopefully somewhere along the line, someone can come up with a fix for this. as i mentioned in a previous response, there was a fix created called "folder flags" , but it won't work on the current version of TB

FolderFlags is compatible with TB 146 and lower, so I guess you're on 147. It might work if you change max_ver to 147 in manifest.json, but it would probably be easier to just create a new profile from Help/Troubleshooting Info, about:profiles, and add the IMAP account. Afterwards, data such as local mail, contacts etc. can be transferred from the old profile to the new.

i appreciate you assistance, it seems like there should be a easy fix for such a simple mistake, i'm pretty much done trying to figure this thing out, thanks to everyone for your assistance

I think I may have an answer.

You need to install the addon Folder Flags.

I used Folder Flags to remove the flag of the spam folder in the deleted folder. This then allowed me to move it out of the deleted folder. I then changed back the flag to make it the junk folder again.

Check in mail account settings in Thunderbird to make sure that your spam is sent to the correct folder in the account.

After a couple of runs, it's still working. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

M

thanks Martin for reaching out, unfortunately folder flags does not work for my current version of Thunderbird, which was 147.0 and is now 148.0. i reached out to the creator of folder flags a while back regarding an update to the newer versions of Thunderbird, but he has never responded back to my inquires