Is there a Linux email client which handles spam as well as webmail systems? Automatically detect spam and put it in a special folder without going trough the inbox?
In @thunderbird you have to manually mark messages as spam, and then nothing happens, unless you've turned on a setting for them to be moved (why is this turned off by default!?). And still new spam needs to be marked manually
I need to protect my mom from getting phished and tricked, so need to switch client
@forteller @HerraBRE might have some thoughts
@PurpleJillybeans Interesting. Never heard of. In the screenshots on its website it does not have a spam folder. Does it really detect and sort spam well?
@forteller It has options to pass incoming mail through an external spam filter like spamassassin or bsfilter, and take action based on their findings like deleting the message or moving it to a designated folder.
@forteller @thunderbird Some ten+ years ago there was a way to set up sieve rules in Thunderbird with an addoon if I recall correctly — and once set up that worked quite well. But it's a bit of the hacky kind.
There really should be a way ro have Thunderbird's junk scoring move mails automatically.
@djh I don't like saying stuff like this about a project I don't contribute to, but it is literally unbelievable to me that this is the state of spam handling in the most well known Linux (or foss in general) email client. Someone has to have worked on this, right? @thunderbird
@thunderbird @forteller Seems it's possible thru account settings: How to get auto-marked junk mail to automatically go to the junk folder? | Thunderbird Support Forum | Mozilla Support
(haven't checked myself, I do filtering server-side)
@forteller Thunderbird can check the DKIM signature. It does not take out the mail to the junk folder though.
https://github.com/lieser/dkim_verifier
Another Addon I find useful and installed in my Mum's Thunderbird is that ...
https://github.com/jdede/WarnAttachment
@forteller Much of the information needed for good spam filtering is only available as the server receives the message. Thus, to be as effective as e.g. Gmail, you need to do spam filtering on the server, not in the client application.
@forteller @thunderbird I think this article https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kmail/kmail2/the-anti-spam-wizard.html did a good job explaining why the clients themselves usually don't have this capability. In short, because it is better to integrate with specialized tools for that.
@forteller @thunderbird KMail can of course do the job, if you're willing to install KMail + the external tools needed for spam detection.
@forteller Hey there! We have external tools you can enable, which in this case (setting up email for a family member) might be a better option to reduce the amount of work for everyone. We discuss how and where to set this up in our KB article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-junk-spam-messages
Please let us know if this helps!