Spamato, www.spamato.org, is a good spam filter for thunderbird. Uses Java - but if you were on a machine without Java, you'd still have mail, and you could wait for a java-able machine for the spam filtering. This would be very very helpful, for me thunderbird without spamato is really limping...
[Moved to OT by Ryan - See Bahamut's comment below]
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Thunderbird has a built-in spam filter...;-)
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It is just bayesian. Spamato has 5 different kinds of filters, including rule-based (as in, gif spam), url-based, and fingerprint-based. My experience is it is at least 5 times as good.
Yes, it would be great if all of this were included in Thunderbird itself. I doubt that that's going to happen tomorrow.
It's just that Thunderbird's leaves a lot to be desired. It's based off the same setups as SpamBayes, but TB doesn't have the maybe state, which you really need. SpamBayes, once trained for a week or two, will have 99.9% accuracy (in my trials). Whereas Thunderbird is more like 90 to 95%.
All that said, it's best to do your spam filtering at the server level with something like SpamAssasin. Then you can check your email via webmail or IMAP using TBP and you see the same low-spam inbox.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I have spamassassin at my server. But I don't have access to configure it. It lets through around a hundred a day.
Thunderbird's bayes catches maybe half of those. The bulk of what gets through have nothing at all for Bayes to get a hold of, except an included image - the message itself is snippets of real text from who-knows-where. About 50/50 [illegal drug] and stock touts.
Spamato catches well over 90% - perhaps there are 3,4 a day that get through it.
I have had the same address since 1992 and it is publicly available on the web. I'm on all, but all, the lists.
Anyway, the point of portableapps is that you don't need your own server, just a thumb drive.
A superset can't be worse.
Thunderbird without Spamato it's a pain...
Well, I've been testing it and it works. The problem is that it needs Java (we can tell Spamato where the javaw.exe is). So any way to install Java in the portable device?
Regards.
This thread really should either be locked or moved to OT (the latter would be better IMO). Java is the real issue here, and Java already has many threads.
Vintage!