Thunderbird - Dotable

waldo · 6th November 2006, 08:20 PM

No, not the TV series!...

I'm slowly going off Mozilla - Firefox 2 is bug-tastic and crashes like nothing else (on a brand new PC with nothing else installed to conflict with?!) However, my main problem is with Thunderbird - I finally decided to switch away from Outlook.

I do like it a lot *but* it seems incapable of filtering messages. I don't want to use Thunderbird's built in spam detection, the custom set-up on SpamAssassin works wonders, but Thunderbird seems incapable of letting me work in this way. Here's what is set-up:

Toos > Junk Mail Controls. Have set 'Trust Junk Mail Headers set by Spam Assassin'. This is failing to work so I've also set-up a message filter that looks for 'X-Spam-Flag: YES' in the message header and moves it to the Junk folder - this fails to work also.

Anyone have problems like this or an idea how to fix? I'm off to download Opera.

Ergo · 8th November 2006, 09:08 PM

thunderbird is not-such-agood-client-ppl-think-of-cant-password-profiles , firefox is great ( maybe you have an RC or beta, those crashed a lot for me too), or maybe there is some buggy pluging not working correctly.
I can reccomend BAT to you as a good client, the only drawback is that the spam filter works strange for me )

waldo · 10th November 2006, 09:09 AM

I'll have a look at BAT, kinda just getting by with Thunderbird (I have noticed big improvements since the last time I used it ages ago however!)

Think the issue with Firefox is caused by the FoxyTunes plug-in I have - so I'm putting up with the crashing as I can't live without that plug-in!

blaze · 15th November 2006, 12:59 AM

Sadly nothing beats outlook for me. (Or outlook express back in the day)

waldo · 15th November 2006, 05:15 AM

Hmm, I'm in two minds as to whether to switch back to Outlook. I did finally get the filter working (needed to add a customer header, rather than just add a filter for all of the headers!) Unfortunately, I wouldn't mind being able to synchronise my handheld which requires Outlook (also, 3rd party software that I use also depends somewhat on having Outlook).

Bah.

6th November 2006, 08:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
waldo Cross Hare Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK Posts: 476	Thunderbird No, not the TV series!... I'm slowly going off Mozilla - Firefox 2 is bug-tastic and crashes like nothing else (on a brand new PC with nothing else installed to conflict with?!) However, my main problem is with Thunderbird - I finally decided to switch away from Outlook. I do like it a lot but it seems incapable of filtering messages. I don't want to use Thunderbird's built in spam detection, the custom set-up on SpamAssassin works wonders, but Thunderbird seems incapable of letting me work in this way. Here's what is set-up: Toos > Junk Mail Controls. Have set 'Trust Junk Mail Headers set by Spam Assassin'. This is failing to work so I've also set-up a message filter that looks for 'X-Spam-Flag: YES' in the message header and moves it to the Junk folder - this fails to work also. Anyone have problems like this or an idea how to fix? I'm off to download Opera.

8th November 2006, 09:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
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10th November 2006, 09:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
waldo Cross Hare Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK Posts: 476	I'll have a look at BAT, kinda just getting by with Thunderbird (I have noticed big improvements since the last time I used it ages ago however!) Think the issue with Firefox is caused by the FoxyTunes plug-in I have - so I'm putting up with the crashing as I can't live without that plug-in!

15th November 2006, 12:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
blaze Funk Master Deluxe Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 60	Sadly nothing beats outlook for me. (Or outlook express back in the day)

15th November 2006, 05:15 AM	#5 (permalink)
waldo Cross Hare Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK Posts: 476	Hmm, I'm in two minds as to whether to switch back to Outlook. I did finally get the filter working (needed to add a customer header, rather than just add a filter for all of the headers!) Unfortunately, I wouldn't mind being able to synchronise my handheld which requires Outlook (also, 3rd party software that I use also depends somewhat on having Outlook). Bah.