junk mail controls dont work

[Alex Chigos]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Thunderbird version is 1.5.0.14ubu (20080306). Ubuntu is 7.04.
Junk mail controls are enabled. Many messages (91) are marked *** POSSIBLE SPAM ***. Many others which are not marked as spam are obviously junk main and would be normally handled as junk. Yet they remain in the inbox even after I say "run junk mail controls on folder". Actually not a single message is being handled as junk mail. In the Junk Mail controls screen "Do not mark message as junk if in personal address book" is checked, "When I mark messages as junk delete them" is checked. "Move incoming messages determined to be junk to junk folder" is checked. "Enable adaptive junk mail detection" is checked.
And yet nothing is being moved to Junk.
I had reported this bug before but I thought it was limited to ubuntu 7.10. After downgrading to 7.04 the problem is still there.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 15 19:21:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15~prepatch080227-0ubuntu0.7.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: mozilla-thunderbird
Uname: Linux laptop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 12 05:41:34 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alex Chigos (alex-x-med)]

After installing unbuntu 7.04 (downgrading from 7.10) and updating all packages, I still cant get junk mail controls to work. Is there a file I can delete or an advanced parameter I can edit that will reset this?

I created a message filter called 'Winner".
I said if the subject contains the word 'winner' move it to the junk filter. I saved it.
I verified that there was a message in by inbox with a subject line that said 'Dear Winner".
I then made sure the inbox was selected and clicked 'run junk mail contols on filter' . No messages were moved.

It seems that the whole junk mail control thing is turned off. I cannot find an option to 'enable junk mail controls'.

What am I missing?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please install 7.04 from cd and reopen bug if you still see this issue. Downgrading Ubuntu releases are not supported and can and will break how packages are intended to work.