If nobody wrote this extension, this means that no person capable of programming cares about that feature, in most cases, or, that the software itself doesn't support it internally.Ĭheck on a site like here to make sure you didn't miss anything, and that actually that feature does exist somewhere somehow. Thunderbird does, so look for an extension that extends the features of the software to do what you want. In this case, we can assume none of that happened.Ĭheck to see if the program supports extensions of some kind. The users in general also don't care about that feature, otherwise someone would have filed an issue, and others would have piled on over time, until the devs got tired of that issue and made it happen. If it isn't, and you're sure you didn't just miss it, the developers don't care about that feature, or the feature is not technically possible due to how the software is constructed. 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. You can find this button in the upper-left corner of your screen.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. The Gmail icon looks like white envelope with a red outline around it. For example, something like " Blocked Addresses" would work. Right-click their address at the top of the message and select Create Filter From In the Filter Rules window that appears, first give the filter a name. Mozilla Thunderbird Open a message from the sender whose address you'd like to block. Likewise, people ask, how do I stop spam emails in Thunderbird?
By default this folder is named Junk and it should be visible in the Folder Pane at the left in Thunderbird's main window.īeside above, how do I find the spam folder? To check the spam folder: When you manually mark messages as Junk, they will be added to the training data, have an icon added and moved, according to your settings, to the preferred folder. Select the spam filter used from the list that follows.īeside this, how do I find spam in Thunderbird?
In the Selection section, select Trust junk mail headers set by.
Open the desired email account in Mozilla Thunderbird and select Options > Account Settings > Junk Settings.