Antispam in tb

Helo
Any chance to see in te future, the antispam of avast in tb?
Its my default email program
Honestlly i cant understand why the antispam module of the neww app work only with ms outlook
Thanks

Because there is a special plug-in for MS Outlook.

The Anti-Spam marks the subject line with *** SPAM *** or something like that. Depending on what our email accounts are POP3 and SMTP (not IMAP). Now you can make an email rule in thunderbird looking for *** SPAM ***, etc. and move that to your spam folder, if you have this rule first in order your other thunderbird rules wouldn’t have to check these emails.

Hi David
Thanks
But i thinking to see antispam module of avast take care of my spams
Brcause i dont like te tb antispam mechanism
Thanks

Well it should flag them as spam, but unlike the MS Outlook plug-in which moves them to the Spam folder, the anti-spam module can’t work for ‘all’ the different email programs out there. It would effectively need to have a plug-in for each and every email client and that would add a high degree of complexity to the anti-spam module.

I have for many years used MailWasher Pro as my anti-spam and that operates outside of the email client and what it or I flag as spam is deleted from the email servers before downloading the remainder.

MailWasher downloads a small part (plain text, no attachments) to analyse for spam and when complete deletes the spam from the email server and calls your email client to download the remainder.

I think the problem with the avast anti-spam module is it is effectively trying to operate in conjunction with the avast Mail Shield.

I would agree that the thunderbird junk/anti-spam function is not very user friendly, I have only been using thunderbird for a couple of months and have never really had need of the TB junk/anti-spam when using MailWasher (and as such even if I have AIS I wouldn’t have use for that either).

Again , thanks anyway dave
Happy holidays :wink:

You’re welcome, Seasons Greetings to you to.