All mail is 99 junk score

Clyde

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Sep 27, 2004, 9:27:05 AM9/27/04

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Eudora wasn't displaying any new mail windows for the last two days
(which is odd). Checked this morning and still no new mail (although
tasks show downloading mail). When I sent email from Yahoo Eudora
never showed it.

Turned off all of my filters and resent from Yahoo. My email had a
junk score of 99. When I checked email again all emails had a junk
score of 99. I had some filters setup to do a "double delete" of
email with a junk score over 70. The Filter Report did not show any
filter activity however.

Besides deleting the UserJunkDB.txt file, is there any other way of
correcting this?

James M. Knox

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Sep 27, 2004, 10:01:33 AM9/27/04

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Clyde <b264...@DELETEyahoo.com> wrote in
news:iu4gl05qgkkl4b8jv...@4ax.com:

Known bug. No fix at this time.

It seems to be caused by junking too much mail (and not unjunking
enough?). Causes all your mail to get tossed with a score of 99.
[Which I would consider a fairly bad bug.]

I restore the UserJunkDB.txt file with one a little younger. Katrina
suggested also that simply reducing the "count" numbers in the header
line of the file might fix it, but I haven't tried yet.

Qualcomm has come out with several minor releases since the bug was
introduced, and still not fixed it. Would seem to be a fairly trivial
thing to fix, but...

jmk

Katrina Knight

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Sep 29, 2004, 11:31:33 AM9/29/04

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James M. Knox <jk...@trisoft.com> wrote:
> Clyde <b264...@DELETEyahoo.com> wrote in
> news:iu4gl05qgkkl4b8jv...@4ax.com:

>> Turned off all of my filters and resent from Yahoo. My email had a

>> junk score of 99. When I checked email again all emails had a junk

>> Besides deleting the UserJunkDB.txt file, is there any other way of
>> correcting this?

> Known bug. No fix at this time.

> It seems to be caused by junking too much mail (and not unjunking
> enough?). Causes all your mail to get tossed with a score of 99.
> [Which I would consider a fairly bad bug.]

It is definitely a matter of junking a lot more mail than you not-junk.

> I restore the UserJunkDB.txt file with one a little younger. Katrina
> suggested also that simply reducing the "count" numbers in the header
> line of the file might fix it, but I haven't tried yet.

The number that needs changing is the first number in the line that looks
like this: !MessageCount = 112, 1362. That number is supposed to indicate
the number of messages you've not-junked. It gets decreased every time you
junk a message, which it shouldn't be, and eventually rolls over when it
goes negative. That's what causes the problem with high junk scores.

> Qualcomm has come out with several minor releases since the bug was
> introduced, and still not fixed it. Would seem to be a fairly trivial
> thing to fix, but...

People who have had this happen need to complain about it. Bug reports go
to <mailto:win-eudo...@eudora.com>. If enough people complain, they
will hopefully move it up on the list of priorities and then fix it.

--
Katrina

Clyde

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Sep 30, 2004, 4:31:48 PM9/30/04

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Here's mine:

!MessageCount = 4294954946, 12408

Katrina Knight <kkn...@epix.net> wrote:
>The number that needs changing is the first number in the line that looks
>like this: !MessageCount = 112, 1362. That number is supposed to indicate
>the number of messages you've not-junked. It gets decreased every time you
>junk a message, which it shouldn't be, and eventually rolls over when it
>goes negative. That's what causes the problem with high junk scores.
>

Katrina Knight

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Oct 4, 2004, 10:34:43 AM10/4/04

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Clyde <b264...@deleteyahoo.com> wrote:
> Here's mine:

> !MessageCount = 4294954946, 12408

That's the problem. Change that first number to something much lower. (It
would be good if you changed it to something that is in the same general
range as the number of messages you've actually not-junked.)

--
Katrina