Re: [LUG] Email security

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/04/2010 13:16, Simon Waters wrote:
> NW wrote:
> > On my emails I get hardly any spam. (I don't have any filters set up for
> > myself.) My wife gets lots. We have a web site and I use the email set
> > up on there (IMAP). Recently I have persuaded the wife to move across to
> > using emails on our web site to try to avoid her getting so much 
> > rubbish.
>
> Why did you think the method of collecting emails would affect spam, 
> which is to do with delivery?
>
> Presumably something else changed?
>
> > Don't ask me why, but she has started getting rubbish emails already. I
> > have set up some filters, which are already having to block over forty
> > addresses!
>
> I don't understand, you block individual sender addresses?
>
> Why not just use Thunderbird's built in Junk filtering tool?
I agree.  'IF Sender IS NOT in Address Book THEN Delete from server'

Unless of course she does get mail from people not in her address book, 
in which case just filter them (as I do) into a blacklist folder, check 
it once a day and bin any spam with one click.

Kind regards,

Julian

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