Outlook rules and Thunderbird filters allow you to move messages to a folder based on sender. (In my version of Outlook, "Move messages from someone to a folder" is the first of several rule templates listed in the wizard that comes up when I start to create a new rule.) They can do a great deal more besides. Both also allow you to move messages from any sender in an address book to a folder, which seems like a simple and useful form of whitelisting. (Thunderbird also allows you to send messages from senders not in your address book to a folder, but I couldn't find a way to do this with Outlook.)
Note that this information is based on quick experimentation with each program. Since SpamBayes does a great job of classifying my mail, I've never taken the trouble to set up any rules or filters. I can't speak for any other mail clients, but I imagine that you're correct in believing that they must have similar capabilities to be competitive. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Skip Montanaro > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:42 PM > To: Katz, Amir > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Feature Request > > > Amir> W/o diving into this interesting flame (:-) I would > like to make > Amir> one point regarding your own setup - Myself, and I > assume most > Amir> other users of SB do NOT have access to the step in > mail food > Amir> chain where procmail and similar tools can be installed & > Amir> configured. We're stuck with the organizational > policy of using an > Amir> end-user mail client (like Outlook) so the only > weapon that we > Amir> have is a plug-in in Outlook (or the SB proxy for POP3). > > I understand what you're saying, but could only speak from my > own experience > with procmail. I believe Outlook has a pretty full-featured filter > capability that allows you to route mail to mailboxes based > on more-or-less > arbitrary header field contents. I think most of my special procmail > recipes could be translated to Outlook filter rules without major > aggravation. I suspect any mail program that pretends to compete with > Outlook (Eudora, Mozilla Mail, Apple's Mail.app, etc) has to support > something similar. > > Can someone out there tell me conclusively that Outlook or any Outlook > wannabe (*) can't do something like "route all mail from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > my guido mailbox"? > > Skip > > (*) Outlook Express does not count as an Outlook wannabe. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes > Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
