Question about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as cellphoneOS

[gene heskett]

On 10/31/24 05:09, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 31/10/24 16:25, gene heskett wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
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>> I have NDI what gmail is doing today, I backed out of it when the spam 
>> I got was related to the last msg I sent thru them, That was about 
>> twenty years ago. That was the last straw. Now i'm using t-bird, which 
>> only soso, filters only work when they want to. T-bird misses the 
>> filter mark by not having a /dev/null target for hotmail and 
>> outlook.com  I've not got anything but spam & phishing from them in at 
>> least 3 years.
>>
> I use Tbird as a webmail application, and I have found that the 
> filtering in 115.16.0esr (64-bit) works okay.
> 
> I created, at my hosting ISP, a Junk folder, into which I direct various 
> spam and malicious email, and, it goes in there okay, for me to check 
> and to do a mass delete as required, and, that way, I reduce the 
> unwanted email from being downloaded.
> 
> I use alpine for downloading and storing email, as I have found alpine 
> to be the most powerful and reliable end user email application, and I 
> have somewhere around a thousand folders and about a thousand filters, 
> some with a hundred or so filter values, and, about 18-20GB of stored 
> email, going back to about the start of the century.
> 
> If you have problems with Tbird, two user mailing lists exist at 
> groups.io, one for blind or visually impaired users, and, one for 
> general users.
> 
I was not aware of the groups.io list. Thank you Bret.
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
> 
> 

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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