diff --git a/src/views/emails.html b/src/views/emails.html
index 5ab8364b2..ab9dfdf2d 100644
--- a/src/views/emails.html
+++ b/src/views/emails.html
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
                 <span ng-show="eventlog.type === 'delivered' || eventlog.type === 'queued' || eventlog.type === 'received' || eventlog.type === 'bounce' || eventlog.type === 'deferred'">{{ eventlog.mailFrom | prettyEmailAddresses }} <i class="fas fa-long-arrow-alt-right"></i> {{ eventlog.rcptTo | prettyEmailAddresses }}</span>
                 <span ng-show="eventlog.type === 'denied'">Incoming connection from {{ eventlog.remote.ip }} denied</span>
                 <span ng-show="eventlog.type === 'spam-default-db'">
-                  <span ng-show="eventlog.status === 'started'">Spam filter seeding started</span>
+                  <span ng-show="eventlog.status === 'started'">Spam filter seeding started. This takes a while.</span>
                   <span ng-show="eventlog.status === 'finished'">Spam filter seeding finished</span>
                 </span>
                 <span ng-show="eventlog.type === 'spam-selectdb'">