9.7   Setting Up Thunderbird 1.5

1. Choose Install Thunderbird Plug-In from SpamSieve’s SpamSieve menu.

2. Launch Thunderbird. Choose Extensions from the Tools menu.

3. Click the Install button in the window that just opened. Thunderbird will ask you to select a file.

4. Click on Desktop, select the SpamSieve Thunderbird Plug-In.xpi file, and click Open.

5. Click the Install now button.

6. Quit Thunderbird and re-launch it. If you now go to the Tools menu and choose Extensions 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.

7. Choose Junk Mail Controls from the Tools menu. You can now configure the junk filtering settings for your different accounts. On the Settings tab, make sure that:

   • Trust junk mail headers set by is unchecked.
   • Move incoming messages determined to be junk mail to is checked.
   • When I manually mark messages as junk is checked.
   • When displaying HTML messages marked as junk, sanitize the HTML is checked.

   On the Adaptive Filter tab, make sure that Enable adaptive junk mail detection is checked.

8. 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.