Thunderbird spam

[David Woyciesjes]

Wade Smart wrote:
> 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
>>
> 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
> 

	I do believe Thuderbird does not mark messages from people in your 
address book as Junk. Try adding the mailing list email address to your 
address book.

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