Merging Thunderbird spam training files
Peter Flynn
peter at silmaril.ie
Thu Aug 20 08:58:36 UTC 2020
Thunderbird keeps its spam data in training.dat, a binary file
containing keywords and headers from all messages you have marked as
Junk (assuming you have turned on filtering). It works well.
If like me you run Thunderbird on multiple machines, you will from time
to time need to merge the training.dat files so that all instances are
in sync. Mozdev provided a Java command-line tool to do this, which also
works well.
However (you knew that was coming, didn't you? :-) Mozdev is dead, all
its email addresses are dead-ends, and the forums are just blind
pointers to Google Groups. The address for the tool, which was
http://bayesjunktool.mozdev.org/ is also non-existent.
I have the tool, and I'm happy to make it available, but I wondered if
anyone knew what was happening at Mozilla, and whether Mozdev will ever
be recreated, or are they just dead, and will Thunderbird also die off.
Peter
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