Re: Thunderbird quirk

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 07:57, George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 15:52, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> Sometime in early April the mailserver on yahoo.com started sending much
> of the list entries to spam.  I noticed because all that was coming
> through on thunderbird were replies. Anyone had similar experience?

I also use Thunderbird, and once in a while, I find a message from the
list in the Junk folder.  I've also seen messages from the list with a
warning that T'bird thinks it's a scam.  And, I get newsletters about VA
benefits that are almost always marked as scams and the program doesn't
let you whitelist an address.

Thunderbird was classifying some messages from family members as junk,

but you have to configure it to automatically move messages flagged as junk 

from the inbox to a junk folder.  My ISP moves messages to a junk folder

before they reach the inbox.  Only a few get classed as junk by the 

Thunderbird filter.

Thunderbird junk detection does not have a great user interface.  It requires 

you to train junk detection, see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-junk-spam-messages:

Secondly, you must constantly train the filter by marking a quantity

 of GOOD messages as not junk - messages in your Inbox AND 

messages that have been filtered into other folders. You must use 

the keyboard upper case J, because there is no button - the 

"Not Junk" button appears only for messages that have already 

been classified as junk. Marking several messages per week will 

be sufficient. You can select many messages and mark them all 

at the same time. Note - unfortunately nothing in the user interface 

indicates whether a message has already been marked as "not junk". 

It is also worth mentioning that the classifier ignores the "From" line because

spam often uses spoofed addresses.   I still use an address that dates from 

the arrival in internet service (dialup) in my area and was present in various

open source software.  As a result, I often see bounced spam messages 

using my address.  

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George N. White III

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