removing junk classification

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shakushinnen
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removing junk classification

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Hi,
Thunderbird insists on moving some of my non-junk mails to the junk folder. Is there a way of removing these items from the junk classification?
Thanks,
.... john
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Re: removing junk classification

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There should be a "not junk" button in place of the "junk" button.
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Re: removing junk classification

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Hi Grumpus,
Yes, I can right click on the individual Junk items, and choose not junk; but that doesn't seem to stop items, from same source, from landing in the Junk folder the next time they arrive.
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Re: removing junk classification

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Look at your junk log and see if the problem senders are still listed.
Maybe edit it. Hesitate to suggest a reset.

Found this using the Thunderbird Help:
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Fairly explicit.
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Re: removing junk classification

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Hi Gumpus,
Thanks for the link. I will start with resetting the training data, and go from there.
I'll let you know how it goes, if I remember ;>(
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Re: removing junk classification

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I would like to know how to remove the green check when I mistakenly click the junk status column.

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http://imgur.com/a/DzAPF2q

Even if I reinstall the app, the junk status doesn't go back to the little dot icon for Google IMAP accounts.

I'm using the default junk settings in Thunderbird 91.
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Re: removing junk classification

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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 28&t=30643 has a perl script to dump out the training.dat contents

The bayes junk tool at https://web.archive.org/web/20070329230 ... ozdev.org/
used to be a good way to edit training data. Its a java based tool. I used it about a decade ago with no problems. I tried it again about a couple of years ago and I could view the tokens but had problems deleting specific ones. Its not clear if I was using too new a version of the JDK , the format had changed slightly in training.dat or I was running into a bug.

I found https://github.com/losgehts/BayesJunkEditor which is java based and only four years old. It seems to be the successor to the old bayes junk tool. It won't remove the junk status for a message but hopefully should let you edit the training data.

Usually marking the message as junk again toggles the messages junk status. If it doesn't https://www.monperrus.net/martin/notes- ... d-msf-file claims the folders *.msf file contains x-spam-status fields. You could try deleting the *.msf file and restarting Thunderbird.
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