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Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > For a while now I've been using Thunderbird (since v0.somethingorother) > and it has one foible that irritates me. I get mails sometimes that are > *not* scams, from companies, and T'bird marks them as a scam. I unmark > them to show they are not. I don't think Scam detection learns. It is looking for a set of suspicious characteristics, and if the email has them then it flags it as a potential scam. Too crude. > However T'bird doesn't remember this and > *always* marks them when the next mail comes in. In fact in one case I > have two separate lists I subscribe to from the same company, one which > T'bird stubbornly insists is a scam, the other it doesn't. > > Any ideas, apart from it being a bug? This isn't surprising at all. Afraid I switched it off because whilst it spotted many scams, it flagged other messages. > NB I would post examples, but they're HTML mails which I know is frowned > on. Just stick it on a website and link if you really want to know what causes it and can't figure it out. http://1.2.3.4/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html