On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 07:57, George N. White III <gnw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 15:52, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> 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. -- George N. White III
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