Thunderbird spam

Wade Smart wade at wadesmart.com
Tue May 9 17:08:11 UTC 2006


05092006 1207 GMT-6

This is most likely the truth. My wife doesnt mark email as spam, she 
just deletes it, so her inbox is
stuffed with crap more than mine ever is.

Wade

Apatewna wrote:

> Keith Powell wrote:
>
>> Regularly, when I download my mailing list headers, they are *all* 
>> marked as spam. I've then got to unmark them all, except for those 
>> which I know are spam, which is rather a nuisance - especially if it 
>> is the 150+ overnight headers!
>>
>> This happens with Thunderbird on other distros as well as Ubuntu, and 
>> with several versions of the program.
>>
>> When downloading, I have made certain that my mouse pointer is well 
>> away from the "spam" column, in case that is triggering it.
>>
>> Is there a way of solving this problem, please, or is it an on-going 
>> bug in Thunderbird?
>>
>> Many thanks for any advice.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
> I'm using thunderbird for years, under both winsucks and linux no such 
> problem ever occured.
> Thunderbird has it's own special antispam engine, it get's trained by 
> the messages you mark as spam. Tools/Junk Mail Controls is the 
> settings area for this feature.
>
> Maybe a certain email was marked as spam and you didn't change it's 
> status to "normal mail" so the engined thinks all such email is spam.
> Try reseting the Adaptive Filter / Training Data
>




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