I like Thunderbird, too. I've been using it at work, and it does a great job of filtering spam.

However I get so much freaking spam to my main account,

Sometimes you just gotta kill an email account and get a new one. If not, then I hear that when Jesus comes back He might get rid of spam....

eta: Thumbs up from me for Thunderbird - although I get little spam these days.

Sometimes you just gotta kill an email account and get a new one

But it's ita@myfirstandprimarydomain.com. I'm definitely not changing the username, and ... it may take counselling for me to change to one of my other domains.

There was one e-mail program I used that let you send user-not-found bounce messages. Does anyone know if a) any spam filters will do that and b) spammers actually ever reduce the names on their list?

spammers actually ever reduce the names on their list?

I would think so, as I'd think that spammers wouldn't want give a bunch of money to the email harvester folks for a bunch of bad email addresses. But that's a guess - maybe the cost of buying a list of harvested emails is low enough that the spammers don't care if half of 'em might be bad. And I'm also assuming that the spammers would go through the trouble of sending lists of bad email addresses back to the harvester folks.

eta:

There was one e-mail program I used that let you send user-not-found bounce messages.

Suddenly I'm confused - email generally gets bounced back from your mail server. Would bouncing it back from your PC actually work? (i.e. would it fool the sender?)

But it's ita@myfirstandprimarydomain.com.

I have the same kind of problem. The number of spams I'm getting every day on my primary account is getting close to intolerable.

Would bouncing it back from your PC actually work? (i.e. would it fool the sender?)

That I don't know. It fooled the casual eye, and my hope (completely unfounded, I know) is that the spammers wouldn't bother to make a detailed check of a bounce message, since if someone's going to that much trouble ...

I don't know.

But it's ita@myfirstandprimarydomain.com.

Same issue here. I did just bump up the spam filter level again on that account after the discussion here this morning. I don't use a specific spam eater, just the Thunderbird settings and the variety of options available through my host (ICDSoft).

Replying with a not found would be fun for the ones I have yet to rid myself of. Don't know if it work, but I would feel like I was trying something.

ita, I've just switched from Eudora/Spaminex (sp?) to Thunderbird (part of my switching to the PowerBook as my main machine, so that we can disassemble the office), and I'll let you know how it goes.

It's the mailbox I have through my ISP, and damn, it gets a lot of spam.

The thing about Thunderbird is that I had something like 6 hours to archive everything on my old work email and everything on my old work accounts.

By FAR, Thunderbird was the easiest to archive IMAP folders. By far. Eudora took too helluva long and Thunderbird was quick and dirty. Still took me about an hour, but I have a whole lot of email.

Tom, if no one else wants it, I can swap it in for the PII-350 on my #2 machine.

DX, If you send me your address I'll send the CPU off to you in the next few days.