202066 - spam filter degrades?

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 200087

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

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spam filter degrades, according to brendan

<sspitzer> so junk mail has just stopped working for you?  does it work at all?
<brendan> it works
<brendan> i seem to have to retrain it, since the upgrade to last friday's build
<brendan> asian spam, some stuff i'm pretty sure it was trained to junk, is now
showing up
<brendan> not marked junk at all
<brendan> any known bugs with upgrading?
<sspitzer> hmm.  when you say retrain it, you mean, on a few emails (like the
asian spam?) or completely retrain it.
<sspitzer> I'm not aware of any, the format has changed.
<brendan> dunno yet
<sspitzer> er, hasn't changed.
<brendan> it could be that new spam evades the training, and there's no bug
<brendan> but i think i've seen some non-asian stuff that i didn't used to see
<brendan> recurrent stuff

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Dupe of bug 200087?

Comment 2

[Mathias Rufer]

Well well, serious: I lately upgraded from Mozilla 1.3.1 to 1.4 and had to
retrain the SPAM function (it didn't recognize spam as it did before).
--> Aren't these learned settings saved in my profile??? If no, this should be
done that way!!

Comment 3

[Fredrik Holmberg]

The spam-filter has worked flawlessly, for approximately four weeks or so, and
now it has suddenly just stopped working!
I receive about 30-40 spam-mails per day, and now, none of these are filtered
out, and put in Trash, as the used to be.

I have tried almost everything, disabling/enabling Junk Mail Controls, marking
spam as “Junk”, running Junk Mail Controls on my Inbox (nothing happens
actually, a bit of CPU load, all the same spam-mail are still in my Inbox).

The only “solution” I have come up with until now, is to manually delete the spam…

I’ve had similar problems with 1.4, 1.3 as well.

I am using Windows XP and Mozilla 1.5 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007)

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

resolve as dupe of 200087. Without a real bug reporter, we can't test/verify
this bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200087 ***

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

v dupe