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On 21/04/2010 10:49, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Julian Hall wrote:On 21/04/2010 09:30, Gordon Henderson wrote:If you don't have control of the mail server (and by that I really mean root access), then you're limited to filtering, but you also have to accept that you need to copy all the email off the remote server to your local systems, then filter out the spam as you go.Not if you use Thunderbird's 'Delete from server' filter action as this deletes mail before it even gets to you.You think so?
'IF Sender IS NOT in Address Book THEN delete from server' for example.All it has to do is check the sender's address which is easy to do manually via Telnet, so there's no reason for the program not to be able to read it automatically before commencing download. The upshot is the mail never arrives in your Inbox which is the desired outcome. Granted Thunderbird's filters won't filter on the more complex forms of spam detection so those would have to be downloaded I suppose, but that's what the Junk filter is for. Using the 'IF sender IS NOT in Address Book' together with the Junk Filter I find them highly effective.
BTW, my main account is Gmail which does filter on the server. The only accounts that don't are my domain accounts, and I could do that for £45 biannually, but frankly I'm a home user, spam isn't a high volume issue (<10 per day) so that's £45 that's staying in my pocket :)
The one that does get on my nerves is Thunderbird repeatedly insisting certain emails are Scams. Despite my marking them over and over again as NOT Scams Thunderbird never remembers this. The Scam filter doesn't have a learning mode unlike the Spam filter, and I have no idea why. I've raised it as a query on mozilla.support.thunderbird and the only response I got was a 'me too, I disabled the scam detection' - not very helpful.
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