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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by js8 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:14PM (#14158015)
I haven't used Thunderbird for a long long time, but the feature I was missing the most when I moved to Gmail ages ago was some sort of automatic categorization (machine learning) based on content of the emails. One application would be spam filtering, but I would actually appreciate if it could be applied more broadly to classify other emails.

Is something like that now available in Thunderbird?

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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by jcranmer on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:30PM (#14158842)
Spam filtering has been in Thunderbird for a decade now (based on a Bayesian classifier, although it's not quite naïve Bayes). There is a capability to extend the classifier to problems beyond spam/ham classification for extensions.
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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by vacri on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:55PM (#14162774)
Interestingly, scam detection (rather than spam filtering) is a simple hardcoded rule, which looks at whether the send headers match up. I've received more than a few genuine emails marked as potential scams because they were sent from a rebranded mail provider.
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