Better spam filters for Thunderbird?

Post #266,530 by Another Scott 9/1/06 9:48:22 AM Reply	Better spam filters for Thunderbird? I use Thunderbird on several PCs with a couple of POP3 email accounts. Even after several years of use, I still end up with about a couple of dozen spam messages in my InBox every day (out of maybe 200 messages). I get very few false spam messages in my Junk folder, so that part works pretty well. But why can't it filter obvious spam messages like those that have invalid "To:" headers (last time I looked, my name wasn't Tasha)? Are there add-ons that would do a better job? I've seen [link\|https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2738/\|Spamato4Thunderbird] (uses Java 1.5) and [link\|http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/index.html\|SpamBayes] (uses Python) mentioned, but haven't seen anything about their relative merits and demerits. Any tips? Should I just accept this as a fact of life? (Yes, this is still for Thunderbird on Win32.) Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #266,532 by folkert 9/1/06 10:01:58 AM Reply	Spammers are doing thier best to... score low on spam setups. They use them to check the messages they send and adjust them to be "good" messages all the time. They are using a myriad of techniques, even I get about 8-10 messages a day, in my inbox that are SPAM. Though I also get about 200 that are moved directly to my SPAM-Box... for review. I have been getting about 10 valid messages a day now that I have unsubscribed from most mailing lists. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #266,787 by tuberculosis 9/5/06 10:42:28 PM Reply	I think the solution will be to create a new email network based on a chain of trust. [link\|http://www.blackbagops.net\|Black Bag Operations Log] [link\|http://www.objectiveclips.com\|Artificial Intelligence] [link\|http://www.badpage.info/seaside/html\|Scrutinizer]
Post #266,788 by Another Scott 9/5/06 11:01:41 PM Reply	Maybe it'll come to that. Google's GMail seems to do very well in filtering spam for me, so it must be a solvable problem - or at least it can be done better than my ISP and workplace seem to be able to do it. Cheers, Scott.
Post #266,789 by boxley 9/5/06 11:19:57 PM Reply	dkim.org is the start, join the WG Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #266,796 by pwhysall 9/6/06 2:39:13 AM Reply	SpamBayes is teh rox. Didn't know there was a Thunderbird version, though. If so, kewl beans. I use server-side SA and Apple Mail's built-in junk filtering to catch that which SA misses (image-based stock spam seems to be the merde du jour). Get one or two a day which get through. I probably need to drop the SA score, though; I'm currently junking at 5.00, and 4.00 might be a better bet. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator]

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