On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:24 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:04 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > The right place is the mail server, which should recognize that > > the mail is junk AND REJECT IT. Putting it in some 'spam' store > > on your computer is no good at all, because the message has been > > accepted by the mail server and the spammer will get paid for it. > > If the mail is rejected, as opposed to being accepted and binned, > > the spammer hasn't done his job, which in my book is a Good Thing. > > This is far too simplistic. Not all mail identified as spam is in fact > spam, and only the final recipient can make the call. There is no one > canonically right answer for every situation, so there is a place for > client-side spam filtering in many use cases.
Not only that, Yahoo manages the server operated by my ISP, which is ATT, so I am stuck with them. They appear to be less bad than Comcast. I'm pleased to have a couple of replies to my posting, but still no answers to the question: how to recognize junk on the existence of a particular header without concern for its content. Thanks - jon _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
