I don’t want to clog my contacts list with address I will never write to.

You can have multiple address books - I have one just for mailing lists so they don’t mess up my contacts.

Seems like you don’t know how to get the best from Thunderbird - but like many open source projects it is the documentation, how-to’s and usability that seem to be least worked on.

It should be obvious how to do something. Its not good to have someone complaining that something doesn’t work when in fact it does - its just that the user doesn’t realise how to.

to let emails come through and not be marked as possible scam, you should add the sender to your personal address book.

I don’t want to clog my contacts list with address I will never write to.

cranial-bore Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm

I’d like Thunderbird to start listening when I say something isn’t spam.
I get regular mail from a few legit mailing lists and I’ve been clicking “Not a Scam”, “Show Images” every time for years. The messages come from the same address each time.

szigeti Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 7:32 pm

Is there a way in Thunderbird to set up my own black/whitelist of words and email addresses? I couldn’t find it, but maybe I was just unlucky.

I believe Thunderbird suggests that if you want to let emails come through and not be marked as possible scam, you should add the sender to your personal address book. Don’t know about the words though…

Why not start reading the messages you’re being shown by applications instead of ranting about them???

Sepi

Execmail used to have this feature, and it was very easy to set up, and displayed the filters nicely in your inbox.

I don’t see the point of using a mail client anymore, for more then 2 years now I have been using nothing else then gmail, for ALL my mail, what more could you possibly need?

Not everyone wants to use Gmail though! I would much rather use my own domain for all mail, rather than entrust everything to the mighty G. And it looks for more professional to have @businessname.com than businessname@gmail.com.

IMAP is not always supported, my company (no this no spam, I don’t offer service outside the Nederlands ;) ) supports IMAP. But only when the customer wants it.
If you use only Webmail, then the mail is stored in an database of the webmail.
Or else you cant store it in any other folder.
To get it somewhere else requires eater IMAP or re-sending it to an email address.

So an email-client is still a very usefully thing.