Mail -> Trash

I finally relented and upgraded Mozilla Thunderbird to 24.0.1. The only
change I notice is that now all my incoming mail goes to the Trash
folder. This is approximately correct, but there is occasionally
something I'd like to read. Looking online I see stuff about filters.
The only filter I have on Inbox is "Chinese spam" which looks for "helo"
in Received-SPF (I can't recall when or why I created that).

Has anyone else seen this problem?

 

Just to confirm -- that is the Trash folder, and not the Junk mail folder?

No other filters at email account level?
See "Tools >> Message Filters" and set the "Filters for:" drop-down to
the email account, not the folder.

Thunderbird also has an adaptive junk filter, which you won't find at
"Tools >> Message Filters". See

I'm not seeing it with my email. But then again I use IMAP not POP, and
Thunderbird ESR for email.

 

Really? The bizarre thing is that the problem just started with the
upgrade, but I can't even remember creating that filter - it was
obviously a long time ago. Anyway I disabled the filter and now the
mail gets delivered.

 

'helo' string is part of the pop3 handshaking between server and client
(or possibly SMTP handshaking, I'm not going to check that out right
now) - I would hazard a guess that the new mozilla has been changed to
look at ALL header content and not just the subject line, with the
result you describe.

-P.