[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Fred. Zwarts]

Op 19.nov.2023 om 03:03 schreef Mark Daniel:
> On 24/10/2023 01:49, Mark Daniel wrote:
>> On 24/10/2023 00:05, bill wrote:
>>> On 10/23/2023 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> On 2023-10-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/23/2023 6:32 AM, Henry Crun wrote:
>>>>>> If anyone has a remedy for the slew oc 'Black Magic' and 'Love 
>>>>>> potions"
>>>>>> spam, please let me know.
>>>>>> Otherwise I am going to have to -- unwillingly -- lose contact 
>>>>>> with VMS
>>>>>> after something like three decades
>>>>>
>> 8< snip 8<
>>> The newest version of Thunderbird doesn't appear to have filtering
>>> capabilities any more (or at least not in an easily discovered
>>> method) so I may have to go back to Knews for reading USENET.
>>
>> You can open a message, right-click (or double tap if using a pad) on 
>> the "From" in the header panel, select "Create Filter From..." from 
>> the popup menu, uncheck "[ ]Manually Run" and hit [OK] button.
>>
>> You get a "Message Filters" popup listing all the current filters, hit 
>> the [Run Now] button at the bottom.  Voila!  Gone and also gone 
>> automatically from thereon.
>>
>> Bit tedious and a little whack-a-mole but seems to work.  Compound 
>> filters can be built if so inclined but the basic few clicks seem to 
>> work well enough.  I've only needed to (re)discover this mechanism 
>> over the last week or two.
>>
>> (Now I just have to [Delete] and "Confirm [OK]" the 'From is: 
>> bill.gunshannon at gmail.com' filter from the "Message Filters" popup :-)
>>
>> 8< snip 8<
>>> bill
> 
> Well of course this got unmanageable and very tedious very quickly,
> making nuke-a-mole the only option.  For Thunderbird...
> 
> Created a filter "match all of the following" with "From contains 
> @gmail.com" + "From isn't in my address book" then perform "Delete 
> message".
> 
> There is a significant risk of nuking a friendly mole but desperate 
> times...  Ensure you have added the likes of gunshannon at gmail and 
> turner.gmail, etc. to insulate as many inoffensive gmail posters as 
> necessary.  I also only [x]Manually Run after casting my eye over the 
> spam (if not too great a quantity).
> 
> PS. Thunderbird says it supports "Customize"d message headers such as 
> Injection-Info and User-Agent which would have been *very* useful with 
> "contains gmail.com" parameters but I couldn't get it to work (and the 
> few posts a search engine could muster suggested that was the long-time 
> consensus).  Pity.
> 

For me
> Injection-Info contains: google-groups.googlegroups.com
works very well in Thunderbird 115.4.2.