mscott wrote:hopefully you aren't using all 4,000 messages as indicators of junk. that'd be a pretty big training set.
junk status doesn't get updated "live" if you change the status of junk messages by hand while you are inside the view. Toggling back to all and then back to the not junk view should reset things.
your issue with the filter un-marking messages that are marked as junk because it thinks it is a false negative is worrisome.
Well, I did use all 4,000 junk messages to train it, and ran the "Run Junk Mail Controls on Folder" repeatedly until it returned no more false negatives. But yes, I'd manually mark them all as Junk, then TB would un-mark a (decreasing) number of them each time. But I'm probably doing it wrong--I got 9 spam messages this morning, and TB only caught one or two. Perhaps by the time we get to release 1.0, someone could put some detailed instructions into the release notes: how to train most efficiently, whether to mark non-spam messages as Not Junk, etc. From reading these forums over the last six months or so, it seems like everyone has a slightly different method, with quite different success rates.
Thanks on the junk status button--I noticed that it seemed to fix things by leaving the folder and coming back to it.