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how to turn off junk filter completely in thunderbird

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I have noticed that quite a few emails have gotten into the junk folder despite the fact that they meet the criteria to be filtered by my own custom message filters and I have those filters set to run before junk classification. So it seems the junk filter is actually being applied prior to my own message filters. I'd really like to just turn off the junk filter entirely because I like to make my own filters to catch things that I deem as junk, (and that is how it worked on my old version of thunderbird that I had on my old laptop). Is it possible to turn it off, and if so, how?

If it is not possible, then it would be good if this apparent bug were fixed.

I included a screenshot showing just one example of an email from an address I had created a custom filter for in the junk mail folder.

I have noticed that quite a few emails have gotten into the junk folder despite the fact that they meet the criteria to be filtered by my own custom message filters and I have those filters set to run before junk classification. So it seems the junk filter is actually being applied prior to my own message filters. I'd really like to just turn off the junk filter entirely because I like to make my own filters to catch things that I deem as junk, (and that is how it worked on my old version of thunderbird that I had on my old laptop). Is it possible to turn it off, and if so, how? If it is not possible, then it would be good if this apparent bug were fixed. I included a screenshot showing just one example of an email from an address I had created a custom filter for in the junk mail folder.
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So I did go to account settings and turned off "Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account". I didn't see that at first because its not in the first set of settings but in the account settings. But still, is this not a bug?

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Why would it be a bug?

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