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Re: [LUG] Thunderbird and False-Positive Scam emails

 

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/



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