[Fwd: Blocking spam messages with Thunderbird 2.0]

[Preston Hagar]

n Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzman<holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
>
>> Oh yes I do!!
>> Junk mail detection is event pretty good in thunderbird.
>
> What are you filtering on? When I looked at it, it seemed to do a good
> job of filtering lists. When I looked at spam filtering it looked like
> you could filter on the from address, which is usually an innocent
> zombie, or on the message body for keywords which also is a loser.
>
> --
> Bob Holtzman

The junk mail controls in Thuderbird uses Bayesian filtering.  At
first it isn't the best, but with proper training, it gets really good
within a week or so.  That, coupled with the setting that
trusts/understands spamassassin headers, has helped me to get down to
0 spam in my Inbox and only the very rare (about 1 every month or two)
false positive in the Junk folder.  I would also mention that the spam
controls/filters on the mail server itself can and do a lot more work
than Thunderbird, but when you don't have control over your mail
server and are still getting spam, Thunderbird's filter helps a lot.

Here is a link to more info about Thunderbird junk mail controls in
case anyone is interested.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Junk_Mail_Controls

Preston