224281 - Spam filtering badly broken in Thunderbird 0.3, works fine in Mozilla 1.5 on a Windows 2000 PC

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Anthony Staines]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Spam filtering in Thunderbird 0.2 and 0.3 was almost completely ineffective on
my platform and spam. Messages almost idenitcal to messages already identified
as spam would nt be labelled as spam. Only a tiny proportion (about 1% - 4 to 10
messages of about 300 to 400 spam e-mails a day) were being labelled as spam by
the filters. 
I transferred my entire mmail directory bodily to Mozilla 1.5, (on the smae PC)
and the spam filtering is fantastic. Almost no spam escapes, and almost no legit
e-mails are mislabelled as spam.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Collect my mail from my local POP3 server
2.Run the Junk Mail controls manually (or automatically)
3.

Actual Results:  
On Thunderbird a very small numebr of spam mails woudl be labelled as such
(under 5%)
On Mozilla 100% of spam mails were indentified.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should have behaved exactly like the e-mail client in Mozilla

Comment 1

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Marking worksforme since TB 0.3 used different spam filtering code. Reporter,
please reopen if you disagree.