Block Messages - Thunderbird

RumRat

If she doesn't check them regularly then none of them are important to her.;)
There is no solution if you don't want to download the commercial emails within TB. Only solutions to move them to different folders etc, but, they still need to be downloaded to do that.
You should always have more than one email address. One for private/family correspondents and at least one for the retailers etc who just want to spam you. So that should be your long term goal.
Meanwhile, click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails you no longer want, to cut them down.
Alternative is to delete her account from TB and let her check her mail Online when she requires.

agrinnall

Gillor wrote: »

I am not quite sure from reading your thread exactly what you are trying to achieve (my fault probably rather than yours as everyone else seems to have grasped it ):





'Assuming' that you want specific e-mails to be downloaded to your inbox and others blocked why not set up a whitelist in Thunderbird.

Everything on your whitelist goes straight to your 'Inbox' and everything not on the whitelist can be diverted to 'Junk' for immediate deletion or reading later, or sent to any other folder you care to nominate.

I think you have indeed misunderstood, my reading is that the OP wants specified emails not to be downloaded, but everything else should be. I'm not sure that you can do a whitelist that says "everything except these few addresses".

J_B

Gillor wrote: »

I am not quite sure from reading your thread exactly what you are trying to achieve (my fault probably rather than yours as everyone else seems to have grasped it ):

Well, I understand what I mean!!

Gillor wrote: »

'Assuming' that you want specific e-mails to be downloaded to your inbox and others blocked why not set up a whitelist in Thunderbird.

Everything on your whitelist goes straight to your 'Inbox' and everything not on the whitelist can be diverted to 'Junk' for immediate deletion or reading later, or sent to any other folder you care to nominate.

I was just trying to eliminate the need to d/l them at all because of
a) slow rural broadband
b) clogging up *my* PC with her rubbish

If I could just leave them on the server for her to ignore at her leisure then I can't be accused of deleting her messages!!

Gillor

Gotcha, but I think RumRat is probably right - Post #12.

Who is your email provider?

J_B

Gillor wrote: »

Who is your email provider?

Already answered in post #10

J_B

Sorry RR, I missed this one

RumRat wrote: »

If she doesn't check them regularly then none of them are important to her.;)

Ahem! If she says they are important to her, then who am I to argue.

RumRat wrote: »

Meanwhile, click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails you no longer want, to cut them down.

She doesn't want me to do that ... she does read them occasionally!

RumRat wrote: »

Alternative is to delete her account from TB and let her check her mail Online when she requires.

She already has them on her phone, tablet and laptop, but .... horse to water ;)
I just need to 'remind her' when a message comes from a friend saying 'meet me at x' or something like that :eek:

RumRat

J_B wrote: »

She already has them on her phone, tablet and laptop, but .... horse to water ;)
I just need to 'remind her' when a message comes from a friend saying 'meet me at x' or something like that :eek:

Really? I'm afraid the only answer I have, is for you to man up...;):D:cool:

J_B

BUMP!

I'm still messing with this when I suddenly realised that, despite having the 'message rules' thing set up ... it doesn't actually work

Am I missing a trick?

Apply Filter When - both boxes ticked and 'before junk classification' selected

'Match any of the following' is selected

Under 'perform these actions' - 'delete message' is selected

Why won't it work???

agrinnall

Perhaps you would be better to ask the experts directly.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird

onomatopoeia99

You could try putting a screen grab of the message filter window showing your rule and someone (possibly me) may be able to offer assistance.