263730 - Manually train junk mail filter

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Martijn]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: 

I just migrated from OE to thunderbird, and I had K9 (from KeirNet) running 
beautifully as my spamfilter. But now that I'm running Thunderbird, the junk 
mail filter has to be trained all over again. So it would be nice if I could 
stick a few thousand spam and ham mails into the filter, so that it could build 
its word databases.

It might also be great if the junk mail filter could import its word databases 
from other spam filters (like K9, SpamBayes, you name it).

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Frankie]

Go to the desired folder, Select All, right-click, Mark, As Junk (or As Not Junk)

If this does not accomplish your goal, please explain why not.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Verified. Every anti-spam product works differently, and you can't just import
their 'definitions'. The 'mark as junk' button serves to train the spam-filter.

Comment 3

[Martijn]

I didn't mean to import definitions from other antispam apps, but just manually 
feed the spam filter a bunch of e-mails, so the word databases can be built up 
in one go, in stead of over the weeks to come.

I keep all the spam and ham mails I recieve, so feeding (training) the filter 
should be easy. But a clean install of TB leaves me with an "empty" filter which 
has to be trained from nothing.