201805 - Multiple Messages with Same Subject line from same sender incorrectly marked as Junk

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Ion Chalmers Freeman]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.02 Bork-edition (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

I installed 1.4a and ran mailnews.


My friend Eric had responded twice to the same message with different text. His 
second message was marked as junk.


The same was true of messages from my teammate Beilene.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download mail including multiple messages from the same sender with the same 
subject


2. Review the "Junk" column


3. Open the first message with the little recycling icon



Actual Results:  
There's a mustard-colored banner on the message saying "Mozilla thinks this 
message is junk mail"


Expected Results:  
No flag in Junk column


No banner


I suspect your algorithm was designed to do this. But, as most people send 
messages by replying to old messages, and as I use the "Ctrl+e" function in Send 
Mail myself, it's the wrong rule.


This could result in loss of data if I had a naive inbox rule set up, but I 
don't.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I've run into this on Linux too.... It filtered off some bugmail.  ;)

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 3

[Ion Chalmers Freeman]

I haven't seen this since that version.