Stupid French troublemaker

[Graham Todd]

On Sun, 03 May 2009 12:26:34 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>    So a blacklist would have to connect to Gmail and I'm not sure if 
> they allow such things. And I am not experienced with such things.
[snipped]

It works well here collecting Googlemail through the POP3 server, but
before we run ahead we might be talking about two different things.

Spam is unsolicited email and you can certainly train a beysian filter
to learn to filter it out, but I took a blacklist to mean a list of
email connections you didn't want to connect to, or a list of email
senders whose mail is deleted on the server before being downloaded.

I didn't find the spam filters in Thunderbird to be very good, but they
may have improved since then.  I found Bogofilter to be much more
efficient, and it is my beysian spam filter of choice; I couldn't use
it from within Thunderbird, so that was the final weight that tipped
the scales for me against Thunderbird.

Claws-Mail does everything I want without requiring me to use the same
application to use the spam filters.  This is not a rant against
Thunderbird, for I have scant knowlege of it these days.  However, if
you want to kill mail before it is delivered (in other words, operate a
blacklist), I understand there is no way of doing this with
Thunderbird, and the only way I know to do this is to set up an
application like mailfilter.

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Graham Todd