Block Messages - Thunderbird

J_B

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

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.

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onomatopoeia99

They look OK, as far as it is possible to tell with bits blanked out.

At this point I'd start experimenting until it works, for example change the "is" to "contains" and remove the username part of an email address so it only needed to match the domain (if the domain only sends "boring" emails) to see if that allows the rule to work.

So:
From is spam@boring.com

becomes:
From contains boring.com

(have no other conditions at this point, as experimenting should be done on the simplest case scenario)

Then run the rule manually and see if it deletes mails already received from boring.com



I use a custom rule on Thunderbird for spam filtering implemented company wide at work and didn't have too much difficulty in setting it up, so I know the filtering rules in Thunderbird generally work as described. Our mail system is quite complex though it's not entirely comprable.

J_B

Cheers :beer:

I will 'experiment' and report back

J_B

onomatophea ...

Sadly, all experimentation has produced *no* success whatsoever.

I ran the reconfigured rule after the waitrose message arrived to no avail and a pepperberry one has just arrived without any 'action' from my 'message filter'



Thanks for your efforts nonetheless ... any further suggestions??

RumRat

Try filtering at source instead of on your email client. You originally said you didn't want them downloaded at all. The way you are doing it there is no choice they have to be downloaded first.
Can you move from pop3 to IMAP with your email?
I'm still amazed that with three devices at her disposal she is incapable of checking email...:huh:

J_B

RumRat wrote: »

Try filtering at source instead of on your email client. You originally said you didn't want them downloaded at all.
But what I meant to say was that I didn't want them d/l onto *my* PC

The way you are doing it there is no choice they have to be downloaded first.
Indeed, but the filter I have now set up (I think) correctly, isn't working and it's bugging me!

Can you move from pop3 to IMAP with your email?
That won't really achieve my aims. I don't want them on my PC, but do want them on hers.
IMAP won't do that .... will it??

I'm still amazed that with three devices at her disposal she is incapable of checking email...:huh:
Ahem ... that's my wife you are referring to! :mad:

tencharacters

RumRat

I would think the same of anyone with three devices who couldn't be bothered to check their mail regularly.:)
You didn't say if you had tried to do the filtering via the webmail so that they should be sorted before they reach you.

J_B

RumRat wrote: »

You didn't say if you had tried to do the filtering via the webmail so that they should be sorted before they reach you.

How would I do that???

agrinnall

RumRat wrote: »

I would think the same of anyone with three devices who couldn't be bothered to check their mail regularly.:)
You didn't say if you had tried to do the filtering via the webmail so that they should be sorted before they reach you.

Which is what I suggested back in post #9.

J_B wrote: »

How would I do that???

You need to log onto the webmail provided by 1&1 to see what options they offer for dealing with mail before it gets made available for POP to process. There may not be anything useful but if you don't look you won't know.

RumRat

agrinnall wrote: »

Which is what I suggested back in post #9.
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I know, but the OP doesn't even have appeared to look at his web-mail.
However, I don't think 1&1 provide the facility. It seems a very basic service. They have a forward facility to any other email address. I would try forwarding to something like Gmail and filtering within that if I had no joy with TB.
I'd go IMAP as well while I was in there....;)
I'm still wondering why filtering isn't working within his TB come to that.