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Thunderbird

Posted Mar 2, 2006 15:43 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Thunderbird by thomask
Parent article: A grumpy editor's bayesian followup

Yes, working with a local imap server would help - but one would still have to manually train thunderbird on the 2000-message training corpus. It could be done if I had more time...


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Thunderbird

Posted Mar 3, 2006 2:57 UTC (Fri) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031) [Link]

If you already have all your spam on an IMAP server sorted into folders, you should be able to train Thunderbird by going into the folder with ham, selecting all the messages and hitting shift-j (not junk). Go get coffee (or probably more accurately, lunch). Then go into the folder with spam, select all the messages, and hit j (junk).

Make sure you do this before you tell Thunderbird to move messages based on its own determination of whether it's spam or not. Otherwise it'll start moving messages around before it's been properly trained.

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