[plug] thunderbird

[W.Kenworthy]

I'm finding spamassassin is getting less and less reliable at picking
junk-mail - apparently its SOP for spammers to test it against SA.  I
use iinet as my ISP, and get them to mark but not discard spam.  Very
very accurate!  Almost no false positives, and only a few leak through,
only some of which SA may rarely pick up.  Then I just use procmail to
detect and filter on the marks.  Similarly with work, where I have less
control (no procmail) over my accounts, I use filters within evolution
to move marked emails into a spam folder.  This should be possible
within tbird, and I assume most ISP's offer a spamfiltering facility.

Basically its leveraging the expensive and large spam detectors that
organisations can afford, but us little guys using SA cant compete
with :(

BillK

 On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:33 +0900, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> G'day All,
> 
> Having convinced people to move to Linux in stages,  I now have a 
> situation where I have Thunderbird running on a W98 ( I know, I know) 
> installation and it has gone pear shape.
>