[Fwd: Blocking spam messages with Thunderbird 2.0]

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Preston Hagar wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the information. I was unaware there were Bayesian 
capabilities. That's enough to make me think about going back to T'bird 
even though I dislike GUI mail and news apps.

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