These instructions apply to Thunderbird 2.x. (Thunderbird 3.x and later are not
compatible.) Please see the Setting Up Thunderbird 1.5 section if you need
to setup an older version of Thunderbird.
- Choose Install Thunderbird Plug-In from SpamSieve’s
SpamSieve menu.
- Launch Thunderbird. Choose Add-ons from the Tools menu.
- Click the Install button in the window that just opened.
Thunderbird will ask you to select a file.
- Click on Desktop, select the SpamSieve Thunderbird
Plug-In.xpi file, and click Open.
- Click the Install now button.
- Quit Thunderbird and re-launch it. If you now go to the
Tools menu and choose Add-ons you should see the SpamSieve
Thunderbird Plug-In listed there. Next to it will be the version of the
plug-in. The current plug-in version is always listed at the bottom of
SpamSieve’s about box. You can now delete the SpamSieve Thunderbird
Plug-In.xpi file from your desktop.
- Choose Account Settings from the Tools menu. For each of
your accounts in the list at the left (plus “Local Folders”), click
on Junk Settings and make sure that:
- Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account
is checked.
- Trust junk mail headers set by is unchecked.
- Move new junk messages to is checked.
- Now proceed to the Do an Initial Training section. To train
SpamSieve with spam messages, select one or more of them and then
choose Message ‣ Mark ‣ As Junk or click the Junk button in
the toolbar. To train SpamSieve with good messages, select one or
more of them and then choose Message ‣ Mark ‣ As Not Junk or
click the Not Junk button in the toolbar.
SpamSieve will process new mail automatically. If you ever need to manually ask
it to sift through a mix of spam and good messages, select the messages and
choose Message ‣ Mark ‣ Run Junk Mail Controls.
The above is all you need to know about using SpamSieve with Thunderbird. The
Customization section explains some more advanced setup options.