On 2020-05-16 18:57, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 15:52, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us
<mailto:joe@zeff.us>> wrote:
On 05/15/2020 12:39 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> Sometime in early April the mailserver on
yahoo.com <
http://yahoo.com>
started sending much
> of the list entries to spam. I noticed because all that was coming
> through on thunderbird were replies. Anyone had similar experience?
I also use Thunderbird, and once in a while, I find a message from the
list in the Junk folder. I've also seen messages from the list with a
warning that T'bird thinks it's a scam. And, I get newsletters about VA
benefits that are almost always marked as scams and the program doesn't
let you whitelist an address.
Thunderbird was classifying some messages from family members as junk,
but you have to configure it to automatically move messages flagged as junk
from the inbox to a junk folder. My ISP moves messages to a junk folder
before they reach the inbox. Only a few get classed as junk by the
Thunderbird filter.
My domain is also hosted by google. I use filters on their side to sort incoming mail.
Less work
for T-Bird. And since the messages are presorted, I don't think the T-Bird Junk
filtering is run on
folders.
I did a test over the past few days and had google put "spam" in a different
folder than T-Bird.
Only spam detected by google was present. The T-Bird controlled junk folder remained
empty.
Thunderbird junk detection does not have a great user interface. It requires
you to train junk detection,
see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-junk-spam-messages:
Secondly, you must *constantly* train the filter by marking a quantity
of GOOD messages as not junk - messages in your Inbox AND
messages that have been filtered into other folders. You must use
the keyboard upper case J, because there is no button - the
"Not Junk" button appears only for messages that have already
been classified as junk. Marking several messages per week will
be sufficient. You can select many messages and mark them all
at the same time. Note - unfortunately nothing in the user interface
indicates whether a message has already been marked as "not junk".
FWIW, I think the last time I trained T-Bird was over 2 years ago.
And, yes, google isn't perfect and I do get the occasional false positive for spam.
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