Ideally disable all html viewing and view in text mode only, no html.Īs with training your spam filters, the same applies to email rules/filters, which are even easier to create and run.Ĭreate filters that move the emails to the desired folders after you make the folders, and after you create each filter, run the filters on the inbox again.īecause the user is fairly stubborn in this case, here's the basics when interacting with a new piece of software:Ĭheck to see if the desired feature that another similar program has is supported. When viewing (including preview mode) spam emails, make sure that third party image view is disabled, otherwise you will be validating your email address in the spammer email databases (they use often images or links with unique id's in them that when loaded or clicked simply validate your email address as current). Thunderbird's builtin spam filters are quite good once properly trained. Much less work than doing it 20 emails at a time. Check junk folder for false positives, mark not junk, repeat until it's good. If you give the junk filter a few hundred samples it will be pretty accurate. As you assign 'junk' status to emails, you can rerun the spam filters on the inbox until it's properly trained, and most of the subsequent emails will get moved to the Junk folder automatically after you've created a decent set of spam samples. It's a one time operation, don't overthink it.

Use spam emails to train your thunderbird spam filters once all the emails have downloaded. NOTE: while the specific counts are not possible, you can switch back and forth between offline/not offline, but it's a pain, requires confirm click.ĭownload all emails.

Thunderbird software download