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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 331485" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>I make use of Thunderbird rules to more or less completely filter out SPAM. </p><p></p><p>What I have done is use rules to set up two sender "white lists". If the sender is on one of the white lists (one for personal, one for businesses - Amazon.com for example) I want to keep the email; else I want to filter it out. Each "white list" is a rule that contains a list of valid senders. The rule sets the message priority to Highest or High if the sender of the email matches one of the senders in the rule. Then I use another rule to move anything that isn't of priority Highest or High to my "Suspected SPAM" folder.</p><p></p><p>Operationally, this means that if the sender of an email is not on one of the two white lists, their email gets moved to my "Suspected SPAM" folder.</p><p></p><p>I scan that folder now and then, looking for valid senders that I have yet to include on my white list rules. I update the rules when that happens. In practise, I found that I was updating the rules almost daily when I first started. Now however, my white lists are quite complete, and I almost never find real email in my Suspected SPAM folder. </p><p></p><p>This works very well for me. Could this work for you too? I suspect you could do a similar thing with Mail rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 331485, member: 17052"] I make use of Thunderbird rules to more or less completely filter out SPAM. What I have done is use rules to set up two sender "white lists". If the sender is on one of the white lists (one for personal, one for businesses - Amazon.com for example) I want to keep the email; else I want to filter it out. Each "white list" is a rule that contains a list of valid senders. The rule sets the message priority to Highest or High if the sender of the email matches one of the senders in the rule. Then I use another rule to move anything that isn't of priority Highest or High to my "Suspected SPAM" folder. Operationally, this means that if the sender of an email is not on one of the two white lists, their email gets moved to my "Suspected SPAM" folder. I scan that folder now and then, looking for valid senders that I have yet to include on my white list rules. I update the rules when that happens. In practise, I found that I was updating the rules almost daily when I first started. Now however, my white lists are quite complete, and I almost never find real email in my Suspected SPAM folder. This works very well for me. Could this work for you too? I suspect you could do a similar thing with Mail rules. [/QUOTE]
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