Better spam - junk mail - control in Thunderbird

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:01:01 -0700

On my work accounts, we’re using SpamAssassin. For personal mail, I’ve switched from Hotmail to gmail in part because Hotmail does a poor job of detecting spam.

Lately, I’ve been getting frustrated by the amount of spam that makes it past the spam detecting routines on the mail servers. I don’t really want to do something involved on my own system. So what to do?

Junk Mail Controls gives instructions on how to adjust the spam filter in Thunderbird so it’s more sensitive to spam. I’m hoping that this helps reduce spam while still avoiding false positives. I have to say that gmail and Thunderbird have been stellar on this, which is a good thing. I’d much rather get a few annoying spam messages than lose real mail into the spam hopper.

Message aging in Thunderbird mail client

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:01:01 -0700

I’ve (mostly) switched from Outlook to Thunderbird for mail. If you, like me, subscribe to a few mailing lists, you know it’s a pain dealing with them. If I don’t have time to read the issue from 6 months ago, it’s nice to have it just disappear. No stress trying to decide whether to do a quick scan or just do a bulk delete. Just delete them.

One of the features I’ve missed with Thunderbird was that ability to delete messages automatically. No stress. Well, unless you delete the wrong messages. But Thunderbird has good filters and so it’s easy to avoid that.

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Better spam - junk mail - control in Thunderbird

Message aging in Thunderbird mail client