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After migrating to T-Bird I get mountains of spam.

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I migrated one (just one) of my personal email accounts (from Outlook) to Thunderbird - around 6 months ago. I have other email accounts such as Gmail and Yahoo that I DO NOT use with Thunderbird.

Ever since I migrated that ONE account, I have been inundated with junk/spam emails sent to that same migrated account. No change in junk/spam volume received on my other non-Thunderbird accounts, just this one. I'm asking as it's seems strange, and is the ONLY account that suffers this major annoyance.

Any thoughts as to why?

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I migrated one (just one) of my personal email accounts (from Outlook) to Thunderbird - around 6 months ago. I have other email accounts such as Gmail and Yahoo that I DO NOT use with Thunderbird. Ever since I migrated that ONE account, I have been inundated with junk/spam emails sent to that same migrated account. No change in junk/spam volume received on my other non-Thunderbird accounts, just this one. I'm asking as it's seems strange, and is the ONLY account that suffers this major annoyance. Any thoughts as to why? Thanks,

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I don't use that email address on websites and I don't do social media. The question was based on the coincidence of the dramatic spam/junk increase after the cutover.

Thinking about it some more, it might be due to using a spam assassin program on that acct (as the one used by T-Bird crashes the app, so I removed it) that "bounces" the junk/spam emails.

Think I may have solved my own question!!! :)

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No idea s to why at all. Other than your use of that email address perhaps on social media or other web sites. There is no way Thunderbird use can increase your spam. None! As all connections are undertaken between your device and your providers server, usually in an encrypted form. There are a few laggards out there that do not use encrypted connections, but they are few and far between and there is nothing the mail client can do to force companies that are living in the past with obsolete security to improve other than refusing to get your mail. When that happened back about 2016 everyone blamed Thunderbird for breaking their mail.

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I don't use that email address on websites and I don't do social media. The question was based on the coincidence of the dramatic spam/junk increase after the cutover.

Thinking about it some more, it might be due to using a spam assassin program on that acct (as the one used by T-Bird crashes the app, so I removed it) that "bounces" the junk/spam emails.

Think I may have solved my own question!!! :)

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