Can you NOT be alerted of new junk mail?

I LOVE the junk mail detector in Thunderbird. It learned quick and is
EXTREMELY accurate. The only thing that sucks though is my new mail
sound plays and I click over to TB all excited just to see its just
another spam sitting in my junk folder. Is there a way to TB will only
alert you to inbox mail and NOT junk mail??

 

Whilst decanting a beer Gnomalarta smiled when he saw that Axl had written
in

Out of interest, what accuracy are you getting, how may false positives &
negitives?


Charlie.

 

IS there a way to check actual #s? Estimating, I'd say 90% accuracy
right now if not better.

 

Whilst decanting a beer Gnomalarta smiled when he saw that Axl had
written in

Good point! I ask because I have used K9 (www.keir.net)for some time and
when I switched from OE to Thunderbird I disabled K9 to see how the bird
dealt with spam. I would estimate that I got, at best, the same as you but
it never really got better and K9 had always been better than that. But I
do like the idea of an integrated Bayesian filter as opposed to a proxy,
which K9 is.

Checking my current K9 stats I see that accuracy for the past 40 day is
99.1 per cent and for the past 20 days it's 99.9 per cent. The latter
figure is due to 1 email having to be reclassified as Good (not spam). The
40 day figure is due to 12 emails being reclassified as good and 2 as spam.

Charlie.