On 15.12.2014 20:51 UK Time, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 18:20 +0000, Herbert Eppel wrote:
Thanks for your reply, but I'm afraid as an ordinary SA user with
limited knowledge of these matters I have, quite frankly, no idea what
you are talking about.
We may be able to offer more relevant help if we understood how your
mail system is connected up.
So far it looks as though your mail is:
- received by your ISP's main mailserver
- passed to SA which adds spam scoring headers
- then passed through your ISP's spam filter, which deletes any message
with a score high enough to be treated as spam.
What happens after that?
Are you simply pointing a mail reader at your ISP's system and using
POP3 or IMAP to retrieve mail from their server?
- if so, what mailreader are you using?
Different Mailreaders have varying ways of handling spam. These
range from quite elaborate and configuring to nothing at all.
- if you are doing something different or more elaborate, tell us what
you're using and how its connected.
Hi Martin
Thanks for your helpful reply.
I mainly use Thunderbird in POP3 mode to retrieve mail from the
server(s). As you are probably aware, Thunderbird has a junk training
facility that quite adequately deals with spam that gets through at the
server level.
The spam overload problem mainly arises at times when I read mail on my
smartphone, in which case I don't have the additional Thunderbird spam
filtering available, and my QiQ mailbox tends to be swamped with spam,
which is why I want to try and get a better grip on the spam situation
at the server level.
Regards
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
