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Have a folder on my yahoo webmail account with >100K emails accumulated over time. The emails are of no lasting value

I just received a notification (via a banner on yahoo webmail when I log in) that my storage is full (never seen this before, but not surprised that Yahoo would be looking for "additional storage" revenue - not interested.)

I'm attempting to delete the emails in this (large) folder (which are of no lasting value), so far with no success.

The initial problem is that yahoo's functions to expunge (permanently remove) the emails (after moving them to their trash folder) does not work (either 0% progress overnight, or progressing 0-100% progress, in either case all of the emails remain in their trash folder and I continue to be notified (by the banner at sign-in) that email storage is full (and I do not wish to purchase any additional storage from yahoo.) As this is a non-premium yahoo account, no support exists.

It appears that yahoo webmail does not expose their trash folder via imap (it appears empty on imap view). Thunderbird "empty trash" on the hosted Trash folder shows no contents and completes immediately with "emptied trash".

I've now tried moving emails from yahoo's trash folder to another (new) folder on yahoo webmail, then using thunderbird imap to move those emails from yahoo to a local folder. My expectation was that "move" means gone from server, present on client. That appears not to be the case.

While this step does create a local copy, a copy appears to be left in yahoo's trash folder which still cannot be removed, so the core problem (of their impact on yahoo webmail storage) is unresolved.

I understand that "expunge" exists in IMAP but I don't see how this can be used with Thunderbird.

As I'm somewhat going in circles trying to solve this problem, I'm reaching out here for advice.

Thanks

I use an AOL email account and Thunderbird on my Mac. In Thunderbird, the junk mail folder - which AOL call "Bulk Mail" for some reason - has moved to the Trash folder and I can't get it out. It's a Thunderbird problem - if I go onto my account at AOL.com, everything is normal. How do I get it out? I've tried cutting and pasting it, creating a new folder...nothing seems to work. I don't want to empty the trash in case I no longer have a junk folder at all

Is there an easier way to block unwante senders than the extra effort to create a filter ? It seems there should be an easy way to "Choose or Apply a Block to a specific email sender by simply clicking on a "BLOCK" link to prevent that sender from sending unwanted emails(not just that email)

I am trying to create filters for all the spam I have been receiving. It mentioned a tools menu for adding additional filters, but I am not seeing a tools menu anywhere,

Hello, I have marked a number of emails as junk in the Suspected Spam folder. Why are they not immediately moved to my junk folder? Or do I have to move the marked emails there manually? Or is it better to delete them manually immediately after marking them?

Best Regards

The last few days most of my emails have been tagged as ***SPAM*** and automatically moved to my Junk folder. I have to be sure to check that folder. I've tried "training the app by moving valid email to the inbox but the problem persists.

Hello I have asked this before but i did not get an answer i could use i did get an answer but it did not work. So i am asking again. I can run Thunderbird for like a month and then all of a sudden all inbox mail goes to trash folder abut not with the name of the sender with my name as the sender I have reinstalled several times i have changed my security gone from 64 it to 32 bit removed some add ons or extensions. Now it is run from Comcast email and that is correct as far as i know. Not sure i have it filtered correctly i am stumped please help me here . every time i d reinstall i need to put back manually all my contacts and that takes forever . Please i have even disabled Norton antivirus for 1 hour and it was doing this with windows explorer as well so please I know i asked this before but nothing worked. I hate to stop using Thunderbird but if this keeps happening i may need to. the only extensions i have in Thunderbird enabled are emojis, config button, restart, and ublblock. Not sure how to get to filters and change any thing. Thanks Please i need help thanks upset Thunderbird user

Currently, when setting up spam filters, Thunderbird allows one to to set a condition. Would it not be possible to add an AND field to that. For example, I often get spam emails of the form "BankName interest rate changes". While I can set a filter to ignore any Subject that contains the work BankName it does not help if BankName is my actual bank. It would be useful to be able to create a filter such as: Send to junk if subject contains BankName AND email does not contain BankName.com.

Just a suggestion.

Many thanks -Ian

I want to COMPLETELY turn off junk filtering in Thunderbird. I want ALL emails to appear in my Inbox. I want NO junk filtering. TB has started marking many emails as Junk in 1 of my 2 email accounts & automatically moving them to the Junk folder. These emails often are important and should never be classified as Junk. This is a serious problem.

Under Selection in Junk Filtering, I have NOT marked/checked "enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account." Also under Selection in Junk Filtering, I have NOT marked/checked "Trust junk mail set by." Under Destination and Retention, I have NOT marked/checked "Move new junk message to:". HOWEVER, there is a section under this category, i.e., Destination and Retention, for move to "junk folder on rdsurber@charter.net" that is currently marked/checked that I cannot access in order to unmark/uncheck it.

What can I do to ensure that absolutely NO emails are automatically marked as junk & NO emails are moved to the Junk folder? I would greatly appreciate help with this issue. Thank you!

I have a filter that moves emails based on the Sender... to a Local Folder (*) The system is set to [Filter After Junk Classification]

Every new email moved (by the Filter) to this Local Folder is marked as Junk. I manually set each email as not-Junk but the issue persists. (*) I have added a Filter action (as well as the Move): Set Junk Status to Not Junk (but this is not successful)

Any suggestions to fix, are welcomed.

I keep receiving the same or similar spam emails which I have already marked as Junk. I assumed that by doing so, Thunderbird would 'know' to send those directly to the Junk folder, but these emails still appear in my Inbox. How to train T'bird so that new emails I have previously marked as Junk automatically go to the Junk folder (it would then be up to me to check this folder if needed)?

I have a Macbook air, T'bird shows up to date (v. 140.5.0esr (aarch64), Junk settings: Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account, Move new junk messages to: "Junk" folder on Local folders. Many thanks.

Hello, I have had very good luck with junk being identified and moved to the junk folder, but now, while everything is still being identified as junk, it no longer moves to the junk folder. I have not changed settings and ocasionally some junk messages do go to the folder but then it stops and reverts to junk being identified but remaining in my inbox. Is there something I can try to get it working like it used to?

Right now when blocking a sender the deleted message go to "Trash".

How can I do a "hard/permanent delete"(Shift+Delete) when blocking a sender? Can this be done so that it bypasses the Trash and is permanently deleted?

Hello, I am trying to move to thunderbird from outlook.

I have a long list of domains/email addressess in the outlook "safe sender list" however i could not find an easy way to import this txt file into thunderbird "allow remote content in messages" exception list.

shouldnt there be like an easy "upload" button to migrate the safe sender list to Thunderbird?

I tried converting the list with ai to a csv list, but it still didnt work (possible due to a mixture of *@domain placeholders and actual email adressess, thunderbird seems to allow only actual adresses and not to whitelist a domain?)

thanks, Pete

Hello,

I run Thunderbird 146.01 under Windows 11 Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631... TB pulls messages from a POP Server.

Though I have tried many fixes TB keeps reverting to requiring that I manually run both Spam Sorting, and Filter Sorting, usually after running these functions automatically for about a week.

Might someone suggest a fix that will have some lasting benefit?

Many thanks,

Lothar

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.

Hello, I currently have the "adaptive junk mail controls" enabled in my account settings. I have been marking junk mail as spam (the fire icon) every time one comes in my inbox and sending them to the junk folder. However, I am still getting the same junk mail. If I delete items in the junk folder every so often (I had 2,000 junk emails in there at one point and then deleted it), does this negate the Thunderbird identifying items as junk mail? What should I be doing with the junk mail once it is in the junk folder?

Hello,

I wanted to empty the trash in one of my email accounts in Thunderbird. Normally I would right click on the trash folder and then there is the option to empty the trash. Unlike ever before and on this one account (gmx imap) this option doesn't exist anymore - I can't empty the trash. I went into the account settings and ticked the option to empty the trash on exiting but after quitting Thunderbird and restarting it, the email is still in the trash.

What's wrong here? My suspicion is that I would need to mark the email in the trash as read and only then I would get back the option to empty the trash? I don't want to do that, I want to be able to empty the trash whenever I want to or on exiting Thunderbird. I don't want to be forced to mark an email as read before beeing allowed to delete it. Please help.

By the way, it was very difficult to even get to post this question here. I also don't really find this forum to be user friendly. Is this supposed to be the official Thunderbird forum? Or is that somewhere elese? Thanks.

I have a friend and business client with whom I've been emailing for thirty years. About six months ago, his emails to me began to be automatically placed in the "junk" folder. They weren't even showing up in my Inbox with the "looks like junk" icon. Thunderbird claims to "learn" and "unlearn" what email is tagged as junk, but in this case, the sender was NEVER tagged as junk. Furthermore, I have been constantly retrieving their emails from the Junk folder and identifying them as "not junk" by selecting the email and pressing shift+J. Yet they are still automatically getting dumped in the junk folder. Can I possibly override Thunderbird's mislabeling of this email address?