Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

[Eddie G. O'Connor]

On 12/30/2013 12:54 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> On 12/28/2013 08:13 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>>  I literally spent a whole hour and a half ...JUST adding email 
>> addresses to the "Block" list...
>
> Do you know that a big ratio of SPAM are with forged sender address?
> Just try it in Thunderbird: manage identities, add, and setup a fake 
> sender.
> You'll see that it's very simple to send an EMail with a fake identity.
>
> While you're blocking on the sender basis, you're likely to miss many 
> important things.
> On the other hand, if you are whitelisting a bunch of known adresses, 
> if the SPAM is forged with those, you will still continue to get SPAM.
>
>
>
So then?...there really isn't a way to have a "virgin" mailbox in 
Thunderbird?...I'm wondering if Spam Assassin will help?...gonna have to 
do some reading!..


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