TB's definitions of the words "spam" and "junk"
Are the words "spam" and "junk" identical in meaning within TB and TB Help? Or does "spam" mean one thing, and "junk" a different thing?
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Same Same the terms are basically interchangeable. Most folk call spam spam, but the Netscape people who originally developed Thunderbird called is junk and the name has stuck.
But this is the biggest difference in what people expect and what Thunderbird does. The junk filter never looks at an email address in determining if the content is junk. It does use the from address to whitelist those in your address book.
The next major conceptual difference is junk/spam is not "unwanted" so if you subscribe to a newsletter and then decide it is junk you should unsubscribe, but expect an automated filter that was supposed to allow the message in to treat it differently once you change your mind.
Finally spam/junk is not scam detection. That is something else again.
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Same Same the terms are basically interchangeable. Most folk call spam spam, but the Netscape people who originally developed Thunderbird called is junk and the name has stuck.
But this is the biggest difference in what people expect and what Thunderbird does. The junk filter never looks at an email address in determining if the content is junk. It does use the from address to whitelist those in your address book.
The next major conceptual difference is junk/spam is not "unwanted" so if you subscribe to a newsletter and then decide it is junk you should unsubscribe, but expect an automated filter that was supposed to allow the message in to treat it differently once you change your mind.
Finally spam/junk is not scam detection. That is something else again.