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What's the use of marking as "Junk" in Mozilla Thunderbird?

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I have a few Mails that keeps being mailed to my email address. I keep marking these mails as "Junk" but after more than 9 months they keep appearing directly in my emails folder.

On the other hand, I have a few email addresses that I have marked as "Not Junk" and they keep being send to my "Spam" box.

Think I will change my email provider soon and leave Mozilla firefox for what it is (fill in what I think ....)

I have a few Mails that keeps being mailed to my email address. I keep marking these mails as "Junk" but after more than 9 months they keep appearing directly in my emails folder. On the other hand, I have a few email addresses that I have marked as "Not Junk" and they keep being send to my "Spam" box. Think I will change my email provider soon and leave Mozilla firefox for what it is (fill in what I think ....)

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Marking them as junk does not prevent the sender from continuing to send them. From my experience, I sometimes have messages marked as spam from the server, before receipt by Thunderbird. That can cause what seems a contradiction, where 'not junk' mail appears as spam.

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In Google, when I mark a message as "Spam", the sender does NOT APPEAR in my INBOX anymore. In MicroSoft Mail, a sender who is marked as "SPAM" does not appear in my INBOX anymore. In Thunderbird, I can mark as sender as Spam, but this marking as SPAM does 2 time nothing. Every message from that sender keeps appearing in my INBOX althoufg the sender has been marked as SPAM.

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What Thunderbird uses in a filter for junk; this is not a SPAM checker for undesirables, and it is not built for a 'once and done' approach, as SPAM checkers are.