Is more Spam getting through Thunderbirds Junk Filter lately?
I’ve been using Thunderbird for about a year now. Up until the last month or so, zero junk got through it, but now I’m getting about two or three a week. Nothing to complain about for sure, but yeah, junk is starting to seep through. I don’t really post that particular email address anywhere on the interweb though, so that would account for such little junk mail, but still, it seems strange that anything would get in.
Just reset your filter (Tools -> Junk Mail Controls -> Adaptive Filter -> Reset Training Data). Your filter is trained to catch last year’s spam. Reset the filter, train it quick-like on the last 100 or so spams you got and a bunch of non-spam, and notice an immediate improvement. I too have been getting 5-10 spam per day make it through the filter, but after resetting it last night, I’ve had none.
I don’t use Thunderbird, but for what it’s worth, I have noticed an increase in spam in Apple Mail during the past month. I used to rarely have spam make it to my inbox, but lately I’m getting three or four junk messages a day that don’t get routed to my junk mail folder. I know this doesn’t answer your question, but maybe the problem isn’t on your end.
The existence of junk filters simply accelerates the evolution of spam. Think about it. When improved filtering becomes available, spammers are forced to tweak their messages to get through them. Filters help them make better spam. There’s a lag between filters and the “improved” spam, but it’s getting shorter. It’s an arms race.
I’m not sure if I’m just making this up, or what. But it always seems like the Thunderbird mail filter stops working as wel after a while. As in when I first install thunderbird, it of course isn’t very good, then it gets awesome, then it gets terrible again. If I reinstall thunderbird, the same thing happens. Or maybe I’m just crazy.
