Comments on: Junk management for newsgroups in Thunderbird 3

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By: Joel Williams

Joel Williams — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:08:16 +0000

It sounds like you haven’t trained the filter well enough. I manually went through a few hundred threads (a lot of Usenet spam is incredibly easy to classify by subject) in a couple of the newsgroups I use and now I get no false positives and only the odd false negative.

It seems like the plugin only allows you to control filtering on a per-group basis (rather than actually doing the filtering) so perhaps you’ll need to either disable junk analysis entirely, or reinstall the plugin, disable junk analysis on the group, and then remove it.

By: MarcG

MarcG — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:23:51 +0000

I found it not useful. It rated nearly every single post in science.electronics.design as spam (>90). I uninstalled the add on, and Thunderbird continues to flag new posts as spam. That banner is annoying. I’m sorry I ever installed the add on.

By: rkent

rkent — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:42:48 +0000

Yes that should work. BTW the “after classification” filtering was also a feature that I added to the core code

By: Joel Williams

Joel Williams — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:51:31 +0000

Great, thanks a lot!

I tried the saved search thing but found a way to do it with message filters, which I think is a little neater:

Tools, Message Filters
Filters for.. and choose the news server or a single group
Apply filter when: Checking Mail (after classification) or Manually Run
Match all of the following: Junk Status is Junk
Perform these actions: Ignore Thread

I classified a bunch of messages manually, ran the junk mail controls on the rest, was satisfied that it was working, then did a Run Filters on Folder. Ignored threads are marked with a cross, and leaving and coming back to the folder made them disappear.

By: JoeS

JoeS — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:56:17 +0000

I gave this a try using a rather “long-in-the-tooth” system.(P3-S 1.4 gig)
Running junk controls on folder seemed to run those controls on other folders as well as the selected newsgroup (probably just some settings) but I stopped the process after an hour or so.
Problem 1
Running the Junk analysis seemed to re-download every header in the newsgroup. For the newsgroup that I tried (mozilla.general)that amounted to 25,747 headers.

The killer was, that after running the junk controls, just opening that newsgroup takes about 15-20 seconds at 100% cpu utilization. I assume this is because of the overhead in reading the msf for the junk score.

I didn’t try setting up the virtual folder.
Also the %junk numbers seemed wrong, although maybe that was because I didn’t let the analysis run to completion.
For instance, some of my posts showed as 50 while the real junk showed as 0 or 1

This is just an FYI as I’m thinking that I just don’t have the CPU power to really utilize this.