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bugzy
08-03-2005, 10:11 AM
www.mozilla.org ... just installed it for my work email ...

junk email is kinda weird, cuz you gotta teach it ;)

any tips for me?
paultakeda
08-03-2005, 10:29 AM
Taught spam filters are superior to untaught spam filters.

I use it.
ncttrnl
08-03-2005, 11:03 AM
Taut spam filters are tight
Damon
08-03-2005, 11:35 AM
Taut spam filters are tight
Intentional or not, that's an amazing little sentence.

(get it? taut and tight are synonyms... taut and taught are spelled differently, sound the same, but mean different things. kind of like bow and bough)

Yes, firebird is awesome.

EDIT: Oooh... I have exhaust now! (300 posts)
madajb
08-03-2005, 02:29 PM
taut and taught are spelled differently, sound the same, but mean different things. kind of like bow and bough)


You're pronouncing one of them wrong..
=)

I use thunderbird, more on general principle than any great desire.
Eudora is still better.

-ajb
paultakeda
08-03-2005, 02:52 PM
They're pronounced the same way, but I'm not sure if Tony was making a play on words with the spelling there.
madajb
08-03-2005, 02:58 PM
They're pronounced the same way, but I'm not sure if Tony was making a play on words with the spelling there.

Oy, I saw taut and tight, I never noticed "taut and taught".
(Even though I quoted it. heh)

-ajb
cynicalgeek
08-05-2005, 09:11 AM
For those of us stuck in the world of Outlook...

SpamBayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/) spam filter rocks, once it's been trained.
mcinvale
08-05-2005, 01:26 PM
I use Thunderbird at home and in the office. It works well. I don't use the internal spam filters too much anymore as my mail server takes care of that before it reaches me.

Be sure to compact your folders fairly often. I have had a problem with a couple of very large mail files.
paultakeda
08-05-2005, 02:46 PM
The only problem I have had with Thunderbird is its inability to have two IMAP accounts to the same Exchange server (my work server, personal email and the report bugs account).

The other is that Plaxo has no plug-in for T-bird like they do for Outlook. This isn't a big deal, especially since it'll happen eventually, be it Plaxo themselves or a third-party extension.
madajb
08-05-2005, 03:13 PM
The only problem I have had with Thunderbird is its inability to have two IMAP accounts to the same Exchange server (my work server, personal email and the report bugs account).

The other is that Plaxo has no plug-in for T-bird like they do for Outlook. This isn't a big deal, especially since it'll happen eventually, be it Plaxo themselves or a third-party extension.

That's odd. I have 3 imap accounts created in my Thunderbird.
I wonder what makes Exchange go funky.
-ajb
paultakeda
08-05-2005, 03:14 PM
IMAP accounts are fine, I have four of them. The problem is having IMAPs to more than one account on the same Exchange server.
madajb
08-05-2005, 03:21 PM
IMAP accounts are fine, I have four of them. The problem is having IMAPs to more than one account on the same Exchange server.
Ok, maybe I'm not following then.
I have 3 imap setups on the same server in my Thunderbird:

foo@doc
bar@doc
johnqhacker@doc

You're saying if doc(my imap server) happened to be Exchange rather than dovecot, I couldn't do that? Odd.

-ajb
paultakeda
08-05-2005, 03:44 PM
Correct.

I have the following

a@x
b@y
c@y
d@z

If z were an Exchange server, I cannot add e@z.
madajb
08-05-2005, 03:52 PM
Bizarre.
Score another for bizarre IMAP implementations..
-ajb
mcinvale
08-06-2005, 03:12 PM
LOL @ Exchange.