Anti-spam

[andrewducker]

I've just discovered that (a) Thunderbird has whitelisting, and won't make as spam anything from people in my address book and (b) I can tell it to automatically move any email from people _not_ in my address book into a separate 'unrecognised' folder.

I've now got three filters set up:
1) Everything with ****SPAM**** in the subject line gets junked (that's put there by SpamAssassin on the server, if it scores over 5 - I haven't noticed any false positives in over a year).
2) Everything from LJ gets stuck into the LJ folder.
3) Everything not in my address book gets dumped into "Unrecognised".

This should leave my inbox for things from people I know.

Now, if only there was a way to run these filters intermittently, so that when I check my email from the web client or my phone it's already been filtered, I'd be happy.

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Run your own mailserver - IMF installed on my Exchange server gets rid of most of my spam before it hits any of my devices or webmail.

It's got so good that I've actually cancelled my Cloudmark subscription.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Have you a URL to how to set this up - I'm running Thunderbird as well, but find my ISP's auto spam filtering next to useless as it gets a lot of false positives.