I am using Gmail and Thunderbird, and get Mike's posts just fine. The only LUG message in my spam folder (at Gmail) today is from Jan, with a subject line "How's life?" and contains a suspicious-looking link, which will stay in the spam folder and be deleted in a moment. I see that it is in the LUG archive, too - would be good if that could be removed, please, Legacy staff. From the URL for that post, it appears to be message 33449, and is dated 18 Dec 2013 22:03:34 -0800. I'm refraining from including the link to it here, 'cos that will only increase the risk of someone eventually clicking on the spam link.
Very little spam makes it through to Thunderbird on my computer, because the first thing I do when I start up the computer in the morning is check the Inbox for spam before it gets downloaded - a large amount of my daily mail comes in during the night here in New Zealand. And I keep an eye out during the day, so I'm pro-active on detecting spam that has missed the Google filters. Every now and then something comes through that I either didn't notice when I looked at the Inbox at Gmail, or didn't look in time to catch it before it was downloaded, and Thunderbird is pretty good at picking those up. All the same, I always keep an eye on the contents of my Inbox on Thunderbird, so I've scanned the sender and subject of anything unread before it gets opened. I never use the preview pane in Thunderbird - I was taught many years ago that using the preview pane can lead to (nasty) things being unleashed into your computer before you've had a chance to stop it; have no idea if that is still a risk, I've just learned to live without it and do not miss it. When I'm reading the Inbox (all list mail is diverted to other folders), I have that open in a maximised window that fills the screen, and the open email in another window that fills the right half the screen, so I can still see part of the Inbox list as I work through the mail and can see if something new has come in in the meantime. Might sound difficult to someone who isn't used to working this way, but I've been doing it for years and it's routine to me. BTW, if you're using Windows 7 (probably works for 8 too but I don't have that here to check), you can make any window open to half or all of the screen by holding down the Windows key (that's the one with the Window's logo on it) and one of the arrow buttons. Left arrow for the window to be on the left half, ditto for the right, up arrow makes the window fill the screen. Great little feature that I use multiple times every day. In my opinion, everyone needs to take a chill pill on this topic and accept that spam filters are not perfect. Some spam will get through, and some genuine mail will be diverted. That's why you need to check your spam folder regularly, and remove the real stuff to the Inbox before deleting the rest, and marking as spam anything that has been missed. If you don't do that, using the spam/not spam keys/buttons provided in your mail box, the filters can't learn about their mistakes and improve themselves. The final layer of protection from spam is your own ability to recognise it and deal to it properly. Wendy Carlene said the following on 20/12/2013 4:02 a.m.: > I use Thunderbird and gmail to access this list and have never received > warnings or spam on your messages. Do not post so unaware if my messages > will go astray. > > > On 12/19/2013 4:33 AM, Mike Fry wrote: >> On 2013/12/19 11:18, Kathy Thompson wrote: >> >>> Name < email address > via legacyusers.com <http://legacyusers.com> >>> >>> Mike's messages are just >>> >>> Name via legacyusers.com <http://legacyusers.com> >>> >>> I wonder if gmail is alerting them because of how they are being received >>> by the >>> list or by the different individual gmail accounts Because of the lack of >>> email >>> address in that place >> Well, that's something different. I wonder if it's the way I use the gmail >> account? >> >> I NEVER use a browser for reading or sending email. >> >> I use Thunderbird to send and receive mail via two Gmail servers, >> smtp.gmail.com >> and pop.gmail.com. There's no real reason to use smtp.gmail.com for outbound >> mail. I could try passing mail through my ISPs server instead. I suppose I >> could >> also change the Reply-to address and see if I can get the mail back from a >> different server. >> >> Anyone else using Tbird and gmail and gmail servers? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
