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Sync Junk Mail Filter between clients / computers

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I use thunderbird as my primary email client. However I use check my email from multiple different computers. A lot of the time, I have thunderbird running on multiple computers at the same time. The problem is the junk mail filters are not the same on all computers so mail is incorrectly marked as spam. This problem has gotten worse for me as I have upgrade and reinstalled thunderbird on multiple more computers.

Is there a way to sync the junk mail filters between clients? If not, can this be a request for such a feature?

Thanks -- Matthew

I use thunderbird as my primary email client. However I use check my email from multiple different computers. A lot of the time, I have thunderbird running on multiple computers at the same time. The problem is the junk mail filters are not the same on all computers so mail is incorrectly marked as spam. This problem has gotten worse for me as I have upgrade and reinstalled thunderbird on multiple more computers. Is there a way to sync the junk mail filters between clients? If not, can this be a request for such a feature? Thanks -- Matthew

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I doubt that there is any way to sync the filters themselves. In each Thunderbird installation the filters are stored as files named msgFilterRules.dat: it would be a complex task to keep all those files the same across several machines. In your shoes I'd be looking to use server capabilities instead. One option is simply to use the spam filter offered by your mail provider. I have a mail account with Yahoo for example, and I let them identify messages as spam: I don't filter that account in Thunderbird. But I do subscribe to their 'spam' folder in Thunderbird (as well as the Inbox etc.) so I can review how they classify the mail. They don't catch all the spam but my experience is that they get most of the obvious stuff, the rest I can flag myself. The other option would be to let one of your Thunderbird machines do the filtering and move spam into a folder on the account. If that folder is subscribed to the server, and all the other machines access it, then you could see those messages from them all. That way you only have one set of filters to maintain, and you can tweak them and make them as complex as you like.