How do I get the emails Thunderbird marks as spam to be moved to the Spam folder without me doing anything. I have thousands of emails now most marked as spam but I have to go in and move them one by freaking one!
1) How do I get the emails Thunderbird marks as spam to be moved to the Spam folder without me doing anything. I have thousands of emails now most marked as spam but I have to go in and move them one by freaking one!
2) Also you freaking filter system doesn't work worth a crap! I have created filters for instance: for any emails that have @cypress.com in the From part of the message to be moved to a folder under my inbox named Cypress. I have run it many times and actually none of the filters I've created work? They are very simple to understand and I am doing them correctly as far as I can tell but they don't work. I have created at least a dozen filters and the only emails moved are ones I moved manually myself.
And this training crap you have I don't know what you think it should take a computer to learn to move something to a folder. It's not like a child that has to be taught how to spell. You tell it if it has this in whichever field you've selected then it should move it. Not have to be taught? Not a bright idea in my opinion. It's why AI isn't very smart at least what they release to general users. Anyway I digress.
If you can help me with the above issues in the above paragraphs 1 & 3 I would greatly appreciate it.
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1) <Settings | Privacy & Security | Junk | When messages are marked as junk | Move them to the account’s “Junk” folder>
...and to override that default on a per-account basis,
<Account Settings | (the account in question) | Junk Settings | Move new junk messages to | (define destionation)>
2) The filters do work, as millions of users could attest. They work quite well for me. If you show us one maybe we can find whatever it is you're doing wrong.
3) How would you like us to respond to a rant like that? Thunderbird's Adaptive Junk Filter is not "AI" as it is considered today, it's a trainable Bayesian filter that works as trainable Bayesian filters have always worked, and it works very well for me. If you don't like it, it can be turned off. You're certainly under no obligation to use it.
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Lin, I am trying out Thunderbird because I don't like where MS is taking Outlook. But what I find is that "out of the box" MS knows how to configure Outlook for most users, yet with Thunderbird I'm having to do setup that I really shouldn't have to do. People do get frustrated with this. After some investigation, I seemingly have the system set up to move messages to my Spam folder, but it's not happening. I mark something in the Inbox as Spam, but it just sits there. Doesn't move. I'm wondering if this is partly because TB seems to favor IMAP over POP3, but I prefer POP3. I guess POP3 is the red-headed stepchild. TB should be configured by default to handle spam better. We all know how massive a problem spam is, yet I've got to sit here figuring out how to set up spam handling when I know nothing about TB?! Basic spam configuration is not hard and someone can change it later, but it needs to work as soon as the product is installed. But I have noticed in the open source community it seems to be a badge of honor to NOT do these things and make everyone learn this stuff, as if we all have infinite amounts of time. I don't need to earn a badge. I need a product to work in sensible ways as soon as possible so that I can move on to the many other tasks I need to address. I don't need to be messing around getting a basic and absolutely required feature to work. The fact that TB takes this approach and seems to favor IMAP makes me want to go back to Outlook or try another client and to not speak well of TB if anyone asks.
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