diff --git a/src/views/emails.html b/src/views/emails.html
index a3c888cba..2f75cd882 100644
--- a/src/views/emails.html
+++ b/src/views/emails.html
@@ -159,7 +159,10 @@
               <td class="elide-table-cell">
                 <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 denied</span>
-                <span ng-show="eventlog.type === 'spam-default-db'">Spam filter seeded</span>
+                <span ng-show="eventlog.type === 'spam-default-db'">
+                  <span ng-show="eventlog.status === 'started'">Spam filter seeding started</span>
+                  <span ng-hide="eventlog.status === 'finished'">Spam filter seeding finished</span>
+                </span>
                 <span ng-show="eventlog.type === 'spam-selectdb'">
                   <span ng-show="eventlog.users.length">Spam filter configured to use personal database for {{ eventlog.users.join(',') }}</span>
                   <span ng-hide="eventlog.users.length">Spam filter configured to use global database for all users</span>