Thunderbird or Mozilla email clients - can I set up a "black list"/"white list" to filter all the sw

Hello --

Using Earthlink, I have been swamped with 20 spam messages per hour for the
past 8 days.

Does anyone know if either of these email clients (or, others) can be set up
this way, to keep my Earthlink account from exceeding its 10 MB limit?

Thanks for any information or ideas.

LM

 

Sorry for the multiple posts. OE is acting funny.

LM

 

OE is not at fault, it's your IP.

 

Thunderbird can be set to periodically get new messages so not an issue
there.

As for the black/white list, AFAICT, there isn't one as such Indeed the
Blacklist function is marked as a future development. You just tick the
box that enables adaptive junk mail filtering and that's really the only
control you have. What happens to mail marked as junk is determined by
the rule you have in place - either put it in a junk folder or delete
it! I recommend the former first in case it deletes some legit mail.

So far I have found it very affective, with only the odd spam getting to
my inbox and they are dealt with by just marking as junk. As regards the
Swen flood, TB recognised the MS update mails as junk straight off but I
had to mark the bogus undeliverables as junk in order for it to junk
them as well.

So far, only had one legit email that it's marked as junk when it
shouldn't have been, so all in all, I think it works well.

 

Thanks Nig.

Larry