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How good is the spam-blocking with Thunderbird 1.5? My mother is using
Outlook Express 6 SP1 on an ancient Windows ME desktop PC, and is somehow on
someone's spam list. Various email addresses (most of them probably phony),
are blocked, but the junk mail keeps coming. When she opens the mail, the
"to" listing doesn't even have her email address.

History Fan wrote:

> How good is the spam-blocking with Thunderbird 1.5? My mother is using
> Outlook Express 6 SP1 on an ancient Windows ME desktop PC, and is somehow on
> someone's spam list. Various email addresses (most of them probably phony),
> are blocked, but the junk mail keeps coming. When she opens the mail, the
> "to" listing doesn't even have her email address.
>
>
your last sentence: Thats because its in the bcc

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gwtc wrote:
> History Fan wrote:
>
>> How good is the spam-blocking with Thunderbird 1.5? My mother is
>> using Outlook Express 6 SP1 on an ancient Windows ME desktop PC, and
>> is somehow on someone's spam list. Various email addresses (most of
>> them probably phony), are blocked, but the junk mail keeps coming.
>> When she opens the mail, the "to" listing doesn't even have her email
>> address.
>>
> your last sentence: Thats because its in the bcc
>
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Thunderbirds Junk Mail Controls are among the best available. 'Out of
the box' they will catch 60% plus of spam sent your way, and as time
goes on, that will increase to 95% or more of spam. JMC (Junk Mail
Controls) is a Baysien type, meaning it 'learns' as it goes along, so as
spammers come up with new tricks, it adapts and blocks them.

My JMC is currently catching over 98.9% of spam sent my way (and thats
on a 'new' installation - just 6 months old - my old installation had
about the same percentage). i.e. for every 2 spams I see in my inbox,
JMC has already caught 199 spam

gwtc wrote:
> History Fan wrote:
>
>> How good is the spam-blocking with Thunderbird 1.5? My mother is
>> using Outlook Express 6 SP1 on an ancient Windows ME desktop PC, and
>> is somehow on someone's spam list. Various email addresses (most of
>> them probably phony), are blocked, but the junk mail keeps coming.
>> When she opens the mail, the "to" listing doesn't even have her email
>> address.
>>
> your last sentence: Thats because its in the bcc
>
> Inviato da X-Privat.Org - Registrazione gratuita
> http://www.x-privat.org/join.php


Thunderbirds Junk Mail Controls are among the best available. 'Out of
the box' they will catch 60% plus of spam sent your way, and as time
goes on, that will increase to 95% or more of spam. JMC (Junk Mail
Controls) is a Baysien type, meaning it 'learns' as it goes along, so as
spammers come up with new tricks, it adapts and blocks them.

My JMC is currently catching over 98.9% of spam sent my way (and thats
on a 'new' installation - just 6 months old - my old installation had
about the same percentage). i.e. for every 2 spams I see in my inbox,
JMC has already caught 199 spam