cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46161145
I've been using Thunderbird to sort out my junk email for a while, ever since I walked away from my Gmail account. Thunderbird does a great job, but it does mean it has to stay running somewhere.
However I'm currently in the process of moving and as a result I've had to shut down the system that that I had been running Thunderbird on. The result of which, obviously, is that my inbox is now being flooded with spam.
Since it's been a while since I last looked at the problem, I figured I ask. How do you deal with spam email?
9 Comments
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 269d
Well, I wouldn’t start by spamming this question to six different instances.
Lembot_0005@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 269d
Do your job, Thunderbird!
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 269d
Exactly!
gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 269d
I don't really get junk mail. If I am forced to register somewhere I use an E-Mail alias, often I ask for the deletion of my data following GDPR.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 2 pts · 269d
By not signing up to anything that would send me junk/spam mail. Has been working great for me
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 269d
My email providers tend to deal with that for me. How the hell is spam still an issue for you?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 269d
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 269d
Thunderbird isn't an email provider, just a client. What are you running for your email server?
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 269d
I've been using Private Email as my email provider. I think it's owned by NameCheap, my domain registrar. While I'm interested in a decent spam solution for my particular setup, I was just as interested in hearing how everyone else handles their spam. And their choices for getting email, as it turns out.
I've gotten a lot more responses from people running their own email servers than I really expected. Back in the day it was considered a herculean challenge, almost impossible for your mail to be accepted by the big 3 email providers.
From the other responses I've gotten so far, it sounds like most email providers, including mine, might have decent built- in spam filtering. Others are saying to look into aliases. both are sounding like good plays going forward.
Gmail's excellent spam filtering was the main reason I had switched to them way back when. When I moved away from them, I just never looked at it, assuming spam filtering at the provider level to be non existent, and used Thunderbird's junk mail filtering as it was a known way to solve the issue.
One of the problems with getting old is that you wind up getting blind to advances that have happened while you weren't looking.
I'm a geek who drives a truck and I learned a good chunk of what I know, tech-wise, almost 25 years ago. I try to keep up, but falling behind on tech just kinda goes with the territory.
waspentalive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
I use filters in Thunderbird - roundcan everything I don't want. I don't even unsubscribe because that puts your name on the "live" list.