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Blank header, empty message, STILL not identified as spam

Thunderbird தனியுரிமை மற்றும் பாதுகாப்பு
mrplough replied
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The most obvious way to identify spam, is if it has an empty subject / from / content. Yet neither WLM or Thunderbird seem able to identify these.

I've set a message filter to junk anything under 1kb. That filter doesn't work (see attached).

Repeatedly marking these messages as junk, doesn't trigger the "intuitive" filter to work either.

Is there a solution? There's an add-on which is supposed to learn from your manual removal of messages, but it doesn't work with the latest version of TB.

I'm going back to WLM for now, TB doesn't solve the problem, and seems to hang every time I open it, for one reason or another.

Very disappointed. Have been using Firefox and FireFTP for years. Thought TB would be equally as good.

The most obvious way to identify spam, is if it has an empty subject / from / content. Yet neither WLM or Thunderbird seem able to identify these. I've set a message filter to junk anything under 1kb. That filter doesn't work (see attached). Repeatedly marking these messages as junk, doesn't trigger the "intuitive" filter to work either. Is there a solution? There's an add-on which is supposed to learn from your manual removal of messages, but it doesn't work with the latest version of TB. I'm going back to WLM for now, TB doesn't solve the problem, and seems to hang every time I open it, for one reason or another. Very disappointed. Have been using Firefox and FireFTP for years. Thought TB would be equally as good.
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Gnospen
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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

I don't get any mails like that. But try From doesn't contain @ It might work

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Gnospen
Gnospen

And WLM does?

mrplough
mrplough கேள்வியின் உரிமையாளர்

The clue is in my post.

It's equally as useless, but a familiar interface, and doesn't hang constantly in Win 8.1.

Gnospen
Gnospen

தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

I don't get any mails like that. But try From doesn't contain @ It might work

mrplough
mrplough கேள்வியின் உரிமையாளர்

Thanks, I'll give it a try :-)