Thunderbird spam

[Paul]

On 5/11/06, Keith Powell <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 5:47 pm, 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!
> > >
> >
> > 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
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. It's most peculiar, as no one else seems
> to have this problem.
>
> At the moment, Thunderbird is behaving itself. I have used it a lot
> today, and all has been well.
>
> If it happens again, I will do your suggestion of resetting the
> Adaptive Filter/Training Data and be very careful what I mark as
> spam!
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Keith
>
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Is it nothing to do with the fact that only the headers are being downloaded.

With the Bayesian filter that Thunderbird uses, I believe the more you
give it (ie, body of message as well) the better the junk controls
work.

Just a suggestion...

/paul