From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   Do any of you know much about junk mail processing in Thunderbird?   
   (My primary use of Thunderbird is on Windows, but I assume this   
   is platform independent.)   
      
   I have a Junk folder, and when I hit the "burn" icon for Junk mail,   
   the flame turns red and the message dutifully moves to the Junk   
   folder.   
      
   I also have a handful of filters that have the action of "Mark message   
   as Junk" and "Move message to Junk folder". And that works.   
      
   Presumably my manual tagging of the message as Junk trains the   
   automatic recognition of similar messages as Junk, but I have seen   
   little explanation of the inner workings of that.   
      
   When I manuallly kick off "Tools > Run Junk mail controls on folder",   
   the process takes a while, but I very rarely see anything get moved   
   as a result. Probably because the process (or some abbreviated version   
   of it?) ran when I opened the Inbox in the first place.   
      
   Over the 3 weeks since I installed Thunderbird on my upgraded   
   Windows-11 desktop, I have accumulated about 7,500 messages in   
   the Junk folder. Is it usefult to keep them there or can I just   
   empty Junk frequently like I empty the Trash?   
      
   (Is there a better place to ask such a question?)   
      
   --   
   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
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