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Is anyone using Thunderbird for email? I am trying to get away from MS Office. I have been using Open Office for years and finally decided to use Thunderbird instead of Outlook. I have been using it for 5 or 6 months with no problem. Then suddenly yesterday morning it started to flag almost everything as junk. Today I reset the adaptive junk filter but that did not help. Has anybody seen this phenomenon?

I use Thunderbird, I had one email flagged erroneously as junk yesterday but that is unusual. I will keep you informed if things go south here.

I am still using Outlook and I get email erroneously tagged as "Junk".

When that happens, I tag it as junk and never see it again (I think).

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Fea ... ft_Outlook

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jsburger wrote:Is anyone using Thunderbird for email? I am trying to get away from MS Office. I have been using Open Office for years and finally decided to use Thunderbird instead of Outlook. I have been using it for 5 or 6 months with no problem. Then suddenly yesterday morning it started to flag almost everything as junk. Today I reset the adaptive junk filter but that did not help. Has anybody seen this phenomenon?

With the coming of artificial intelligence, maybe they are reading your corespondance and are making a subjective judgement of your correspondence!


Sorry I could not let that pass.

What am I missing?

I do not use Outlook, Thunderbird, MS Office, Open Office nor any other E-mail thingey.

I have used Thunderbird for many years. What version are you running? I'm running 52.9.1 for Linux. I have never used the junk filter feature so I don't know how well it might work. I don't need it as I don't get any junk mail.
I have junk filter turned completely off.

A little more reading found this:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1176099

It seems that if your ISP is using an imap server and they flag things as junk there, Thunderbird follows what the server flagged as junk. You might check that too.

Hi,

Yes I have used thunderbird for years and no I have not had any major issues with any part of it.

The filtering is done by the ISP and it does a pretty good job. The junk is sent to a folder where I can look at it to make sure it doesn't mistake a valid email from the junk. What ever they use to determine it to be junk works pretty well as my main mail box rarely has anything junk related in it.

I get a lot of junk mail. Most of it is pretty clearly junk just looking at the titles. Account alerts from banks or credit cards I don't have, all sorts of offers to make me young again, fix my what ever conditions, get me "dates", and other obvious scams. Love those ones who want me to email them back that I don't want to get their emails anymore.... like oh good we have a live one here.

Anyway I come from the old days so my email address has gotten around over the years so I guess the junk mail is to be expected. Don't like it but with the main mail free of it I can just go in the junk folder once in a while and clean it up and look to see if any thing I want got sent there. I can then check the not junk for it and it appears back in my mail mail box.

The last couple of weeks there seems to be a lot more junk mail arriving, not sure what that is about but that too shall pass.

Before this I use to use Netscape for browser and email, I tried outlook and didn't like it but a lot of that is because I felt comfortable with how netscape and then thunderbird worked/works and I know my way around.

Ed

All that I need is a method whereby I can "totally eliminate" all attempts from politicians to feed me their "junk".

I need this for my telephones as well as my computers.

garys wrote:I have used Thunderbird for many years. What version are you running? I'm running 52.9.1 for Linux. I have never used the junk filter feature so I don't know how well it might work. I don't need it as I don't get any junk mail.
I have junk filter turned completely off.

A little more reading found this:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1176099

It seems that if your ISP is using an imap server and they flag things as junk there, Thunderbird follows what the server flagged as junk. You might check that too.

I am using the same version as you and it has been working just fine until 2 days ago.

That is not the problem. It is sending the email to the correct folders. What is happening is shown in the attached picture. That is a screen shot of the top of the reading pane.

My ISP does use IMAP. I looked at a couple of the headers and they were not marked as SPAM by the ISP.

This might be a silly question but do you have your email address as shown in your thunderbird address book?

If not add it.

I don't have any of my cameras up now but have in the past and unless this is a new thing then I would expect them to still work.

Ed