well excuse me if I'm not quite as sharp as you. i have no idea what that little outburst was about. my question still stands which is:

considering i use only TB to view mail how should this setting be?: "Choose Don't forward, if you have enabled email forwarding for you to receive incoming emails to your Inbox Folder."

to my mind the above option is a bit ambiguous

thanx anyone else

so as no one else is interested i assume folks here think i should be bowing to Airmail for being allowed to waste his time ...ha ha. god knows how he deals with complete beginners

I suggested you tell Thunderbird not to move messages it thinks are junk to a junk folder. You claim you did that but yet they are getting moved. This is a good indication that Thunderbird is not moving them.

I gave you articles telling you how to go directly to the outlook.com site and adjust their junk filters. You have never bothered to reply if you went there to investigate or report results if you did. You just want to keep repeating you only use Thunderbird. All your inbound messages go though your providers servers and filters before Thunderbird is even involved.

What else do you expect someone to tell you?

Try this. Turn Thunderbirds junk controls off completely. Report the results.

You can bash me all you want but all volunteers get frustrated when someone asking for help thinks they know better and do not try what is suggested. So have a wonderful day.