TB3 problem with Gmail junk detection
Christian Riechers
folder for any false positives.
This should trigger TB's own junk detection to run, however, it does not
do anything on messages in that folder.
When doing a 'Run Junk Mail Controls on Folder', TB usually identifies
those messages as spam, so it's not a junk training problem.
Then, despite being told to, it's not going to move them to the TB Junk
folder for that Gmail account.
Neither it does move them to Trash when manually marking them as junk.
This behavior started somewhere along the line of the TB3 development
cycle, but I can't recall exactly when. It neither works for Linux nor
Windows.
The exact same settings are being used in a TB2 profile for the same
GMail account, and everything is fine there. Spam is detected as such in
the Spam folder, and is being moved to the Junk folder.
Anyone else seeing this, or any idea what could be causing this behavior?
Thanks.
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Christian
Tempuser
wondering why you even would be using TB's Spam facility when
Gmail's recommended setting is to turn it off (see below for
Gmail's IMAP settings for TB). I have it off using TB2 and not
one piece of spam has ever shown up. IMHO, Gmail has the best
SPAM filter in the market.
From the Tools menu, select Account Settings and highlight
your Gmail address.
1. On the Server Settings tab:
Check for new messages at startup > checked
Check for new messages every 10 minutes > checked
When I delete a message > Mark it as deleted
Clean up ("Expunge") Inbox on Exit > do NOT check
Empty Trash on Exit > do NOT check
2. On the Copies & Folders tab in the When sending
messages, automatically section:
Place a copy in > do NOT check
3. On the Copies & Folders tab in the Drafts and Templates
section:
Keep message drafts in > Other
Other > [Your Gmail address] > [Gmail] > Drafts
4. On the Junk Settings tab
Enable adaptive junk mail controls > do NOT check
5. Click OK to save and close your account settings.
If you'd like to to further enhance your IMAP experience,
please carefully follow these additional steps:
1. In the 'Tools' menu, open Options.
2. On the 'Advanced' tab, open the General section.
3. Click the Config Editor button.
4. In the 'Filter' box, type
'browser.cache.memory.capacity'
5. Double-click on the browser.cache.memory.capacity
entry to edit its value.
6. Change the value to '30720' and click OK.
7. Delete the text in the 'Filter' box and type
'mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks'
8. Double-click on the
mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks entry to set its value to false.
9. Close the 'about:config' window and then close
'Options' by clicking OK.
Christian Riechers
I tend to agree that Gmails spam filtering is very effective. However,
Gmail isn't my main email account, I do use another IMAP account. For
this one, every once in a while a legitimate email is detected as junk
by the provider filter, so I'm checking this regularly in order not to
miss an important message.
Doing the same for the Gmail account, I do see the behavior as
described, where TB3 does not behave the same way as TB2. And I don't
have an explanation for this.
--
Christian
Christian Riechers
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Posting this once again, as the previous attempt is only visible on
Google Groups, but not on the news server.