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Thunderbird (31.6) does not filter by reply-to email address
I have recently received SPAM where I'd like the given reply-to address to be the filter criterion.
However, Thunderbird 31.6 doesn't offer a "Reply-To" in the dropdown for filtering:
Note that ...
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Thunderbird: filters don't match links
I use filters to remove undesirable messages (in addition to the integrated spam filter).
My problem is, since years (so with every Thunderbird release I ever had, even the current one which is up to ...
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Is there some way to prevent my e-mail account to receive so much spam?
I had one e-mail account that I used to register at many websites. This account started to receive several spam emails that I would classify as:
Blatantly spam: those are nicely filtered by gmail, ...
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How to filter an email type to prevent it from occupying even the spam folder? [closed]
I receive daily messages in my Gmail with the same subject: "Sales Boom".
Gmail correctly detects these messages as spam and sends them correctly to the spam folder.
Even so, I would like to know if ...
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How can I make an Outlook 2010 rule fire for a new message before it is identified as Junk and put in the Junk E-mail folder?
I'm running Outlook 2010 against Exchange 2010.
There are some messages that Outlook identifies as junk (or perhaps it's Exchange identifying them as junk, because I know that with Exchange 2010 and ...
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Automatically give new email address only to humans
I have an old email address that I don't use any more, say [email protected]. This address gets loads of spam, but also the occasional email from an old friend. I have set up a new address, say new@...
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How can I filter emails by IP in Thunderbird?
I use Thunderbird for my email.
As of lately, I'm constantly receiving plenty of spam from the same block of IP addresses. I cannot block them at the firewall (neither my own PC's firewall, nor the ...
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Mail from Gmail users go to junk mail and they should not
I have my Outlook express junk mail filters set nearly as low as possible, i.e., only the most obvious junk mail goes there. Yet numerous legitimate e-mails sent from other people's gmail accounts end ...
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In Outlook 2007 is it possible to whitelist a domain plus all possible subdomains?
I frequently receive mail from a domain which uses a newly-generated subdomain tree in the From address each time, e.g.
[email protected]
[email protected]
The subdomain names ...
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What is X-Google-Original-From used for?
In connection with:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/763097/101935
I am looking to understand what the use and purpose of X-Google-Original-From actually is.
From what I see, I think I've managed to ...
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Do spammers actually make subject lines such as "[SPAM]"? Or is this added by some filter?
I have a Gmail account. Today, I had received a spam message whose subject line was actually "[SPAM]". Is this some new kind of "trick" by spammers, or was the subject line determined to be 100% sure ...
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Outlook: Is it possible to define a filter rule comparing a number in a header field?
In the mail I receive in Outlook, some service provider has set up a SPAM filter with a comparatively low level, tagging the subject with [SPAM] when the message is not SPAM in several cases.
In the ...
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Why procmail didn't match this rule?
I have the following rule to send all emails with suspicious attachments to a dedicated folder:
# Emails with attachments
:0
* ^Content-Type: multipart/
{
:0 B
* ^Content-Type: application/(zip|x-...
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Looking for spam mails [closed]
I am looking for a bundle of spam mails to use with my experiments with Bayesian spam filtering.
Is there any resource for this or does anyone have a bundle to share with me?
Something around 4-6gb ...
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How can I filter email messages in Alpine v2.03 email client?
In my school, our web admin gave us a text-based email client to manage our inbox. This client is called Alpine. Its productive version is 2.03.
We have a lot of spam in our inbox, but I cannot ask ...
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