From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-08 14:47, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   It should work, but many have doubts of it actually working as in   
   training. Not for google, for instance.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   I have never used that option, I don't know what it does.   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   7500 in just three weeks? Wow. I get that number in years. And I don't   
   delete them, but at some point remove them from the remote imap server.   
      
   >   
   > (Is there a better place to ask such a question?)   
   >   
      
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