On 1/23/2016 1:01 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
EE wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Ray Davison wrote:
Sanpam wrote:
My wife and I have separate SM email accounts, using Time
Warner
Roadrunner. She gets lots of spam emails, while I don't get
any. What
would cause this, and how do I fix her account to not get spam?
There are various estimates of the amount of mail traffic
that is SPAM.
They are all over fifty percent. In the early days we tried
to filter
out SPAM. But you will always be in reactive mode.
Setting the junk flag and then deleting does train SM to set
the flag
for you. Then go to Tools > Delete mail marked as junk.
That last step may or may not be helpful; for me it's a waste
of time.
Go to Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Junk & Suspect
Mail
If you've enabled the setting
[x] When I mark messages as Junk:
(•) move them to the account's "Junk" folder
then as soon as you mark them, they're gone. No need to clean
up the
folder.
You do want to get rid of the junk because otherwise it will
clog up the
database if it gets too big. From time to time it is a good
idea to
delete all the junk, then empty the trash and compact the folders.
The user can't "get rid of the junk" the way you describe if
SeaMonkey has already moved the messages to the Junk folder.
They're already gone,
TILT ;! They are no longer "in" the original folder, they are
"in" the Junk folder. They still occupy disk space. In fact I
suspect they have not move physically, only a pointer has
changed, only some pointers.
and telling SM to delete 0 messages from the source folder is pointless.
But deleting from disk and compacting is not pointless.
So, before retirement I was a nit picking QC inspector ;/
But compacting folders regularly will have the desired effect.
You can set SM to do this automagically:
Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Network & Storage
[x] Compact all folders when it will save over nn MB in total
You should also set the Junk folder for each account to purge
messages older than nn days (default is 7 IIRC):
Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings |
<acctname> | Junk Settings
[x] Automatically delete junk mail older than nn days
As for emptying the Trash, I have SM set to do that for each
account on exit; YMMV.
IIRC Junk Folder <> Trash Folder.
Of course, you can always do it manually
whenever you like, but I generally have more important things to
think about.
Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings |
<acctname> | Server Settings:
...
Message storage:
[x] Empty trash on exit
I personally avoid doing unrecoverable actions automagically.
Antiques Roadshow has illustrated that many times ;/
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