Thunderbird scam warnings

[Robin Laing]

Zachary Napora wrote:
> I'm pretty sure he's talking about Thunderbird's 'E-Mail Scam' 
> detection, not junk mail detection. While TB's junk email detection 
> offers a whitelist(just add to your address-book and enable), and fairly 
> good bayesian learning, it appears scam detection does not. From what 
> I've seen it goes on a few rules such as having IPs in the email, or 
> misleading hyperlinks. It's also fairly overzealous at what it does. 
> Like Langdon said, if it really annoys you, It's probably best just to 
> disable it.
> 
> On 6/1/07, *Benjamin Lewis* <ben.lewis at benl.co.uk 
> <mailto:ben.lewis at benl.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Robin Laing wrote:
>      > Gordon Charrick wrote:
>      >> I'm subscribed to a private, moderated mail list so there is no
>      >> chance of junk email. It's annoying when thunderbird thinks 1/4 of
>      >> the messages might be scams. Is there a way to tell it that
>     anything
>      >> to the list address is okay?
>      >>
>      >> Gordon
>      >>
>      >
>      > My experience with TB says that after unchecking the junk status, TB
>      > will learn that the mail ins't junk in time.  The same goes for
>      > learning what is junk.  Just use the tools provided.
>      >
>      >
>     I've noticed TB pick up "spam" when a person posts 3 or 4 times to the
>     list in succession, it will learn eventually though, don't worry!
> 
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I don't know, I find that once I mark a message as not being scam I 
don't see it marked again.  I am using TB 2.0 so it may be better.

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