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How can I sync the thunderbird junk filter training data between multiple computers?

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I run thunderbird client on my home desktop, work desktop, and laptop.

I like the adaptive / trainable junk filter offered by thunderbird and plan to invest the time and effort training it to differentiate the ham from the spam. Ideally, I do not want to replicate the training on all of my machines - and I want the filters to work from wherever I am checking my email...

How can I do this? Is there any way to synchronizing the training data?

I run thunderbird client on my home desktop, work desktop, and laptop. I like the adaptive / trainable junk filter offered by thunderbird and plan to invest the time and effort training it to differentiate the ham from the spam. Ideally, I do not want to replicate the training on all of my machines - and I want the filters to work from wherever I am checking my email... How can I do this? Is there any way to synchronizing the training data?

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If you established junk controls on one computer, you could transfer the training.dat file from one profile folder to another, but that would simply copy the rules, not synchronize them. A better, and perhaps the only, way to truly synchronize spam filtering is to use an intermediary mail provider.

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If you established junk controls on one computer, you could transfer the training.dat file from one profile folder to another, but that would simply copy the rules, not synchronize them. A better, and perhaps the only, way to truly synchronize spam filtering is to use an intermediary mail provider.