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Originally Posted by NumberSix
Holy moly! This possibly explains my recent dissatisfaction with the spam learning... I haven't emptied my Spam folder for quite a long time. Thanks for the explanation!
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Heh, no problem. It's an easy trap to fall into, since most email clients/systems kind of work the opposite way. I also think that maybe once upon a time Fastmail actually
did set the spam folder to auto-learn, but I can't remember for sure. I know that I personally had it set that way for a very long time, until I realized that I was doing my Bayes database a disservice.
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Originally Posted by n5bb
You can set the properties for a folder so that unpinned messages in that folder are auto-purged (permanently deleted) after a chosen time interval So you could set the auto-purge delay to 7 days and know that your personal Bayes database would be updated, giving you a week to check for false positives.
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This is exactly what I do, since I primarily use an IMAP client. I avoid manually deleting anything from the spam folder, and just let Fastmail do its thing. After seven days, whatever is left in there gets learned as spam.