Re: OT: Eudora a good alternative to Thunderbird?

In article <zibPi.1418$Pv2.1280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

AFAIK no spam filter and that's really important these days.

Your mail service provider might provide some - Mine used to provide a
great mode where they would flag stuff they thought was spam, and send
it all downstream where I could filter it. Now it's either no filtering,
or filtering on their system - they dumbed it down. Still, I find that a
bunch of positive filters (pull off mail from real people you commonly
email) and negative filters (the various popular spam
words/misspellings) does a pretty good job on spam. I've used Eudora for
decades, and never got into the paid version with spam filter (nor the
ad version until after they stopped running ads, though it still brings
up an annoying gray square).

Release (if it ever happens) of the open source equivalent seems to be
glacial.

What I've seen of spam filters on other people's systems, and when
exploring other mailers and not liking them enough to change has not
been impressive.

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