Carsten Book [:Tomcat] Reporter
	Description • 17 years ago

Tested with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 ID:2007060411 on Windows and Linux

When you click on "Run Junk Mail control on Folder" all messages are marked as junk.

STR:

1. Create a new profile
2. Setup a POP3 / IMAP Account (i used yahoo mail and my mozilla.com Account)
3. Download some messages
4. Click on Run Junk mail control on folder
5. All Messages are marked as junk

Could be confusing to new users

	Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]
	Comment 1 • 17 years ago

This can also be seen with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070614 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:0000000000 [cairo]

I did the same steps like Carsten and all messages within the newly created POP3 account were marked as Junk. 

	Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]
	Comment 2 • 17 years ago

I did a further test after I had an idea why that could happen. And yes, if the training.dat is missing and you run the junk mail controls all your messages are marked as Junk. But the junk log doesn't has any entry and the messages are also not moved to the specified junk folder. So the messages are not really junk?

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 3 • 17 years ago

see andrew's bug 355197.

startup should warn if it detects training.dat is missing and JMC is turned on.

	Kent James (:rkent)
	Comment 4 • 17 years ago

In nsBayesianFilter.cpp there are the comments:

    // the algorithm in "A Plan For Spam" assumes that you have a large good
    // corpus and a large junk corpus.
    // that won't be the case with users who first use the junk mail feature
    // so, we do certain things to encourage them to train.
    //
    // if there are no good tokens, assume the message is junk
    // this will "encourage" the user to train
    // and if there are no bad tokens, assume the message is not junk
    // this will also "encourage" the user to train

So it would seem this behaviour is by design.