Paul B. Gallagher wrote, on 11 Oct 16 00:35:
The usual point of filters (not the same as Junk Mail Control) is...
I used "filtering' in a general sense: After all, analyzing a message
and deciding it's junk/spam and/or from your brother is, basically the
same function. I _am_ familiar with the idea of filters...:
... to move incoming messages to appropriate folders. So messages
from my bank go in my bank's folder, messages from my accountant go
in my accountant's folder, messages from my brother go in my Personal
folder, etc. I don't clog up my Inbox by letting everything stay
there and moving it manually. And I can see at a glance where the new
messages are because any folder name with unread messages is shown in
bold.
In the same way, I do want SM to move junk messages to the Junk folder,
which then lights up in bold to remind me to check them. In most cases,
I can take one look at the subject line and agree that it's junk -- if
I've just inherited $23 million from some Nigerian prince, or gained the
opportunity to improve my size and performance, I don't have to open it.
Once more, I think our intents are the same, but we go about them in
different ways: The "one look" you described is the same I take to
decide if something should be (there is no "is", here, just a "should
be", IMHO) classified as junk/spam, bank/personal/etc. and so on -- only
I prefer to do that, several times a day, in the Inbox (which, with this
procedure, never has more than 20 items in it at any given time), and
you let SM place the messages in folders, and then look at them there
(we both use the 'bold=unread' feature, too.
But for those that I do want to inspect, I open them with one crucial
setting:
Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display
...
[x] Block images and other content from remote sources.
This way, the message doesn't "phone home" for a web beacon to notify
the spammer that I've opened the message.
I do have that set, but I still prefer to examine the 5% or so
'suspicious' messages by looking at the source, since I imagine here
might be some new technique whereby a hacker can circumvent this setting
-- and learning about it after some dastardly deed has been done is
small comfort.
Of course, you'll also want to set SM not to run scripts and plugins in
mail messages:
Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Scripts & Plugins
Enable plugins for [ ] Mail & Newsgroups
(JavaScript is disabled by default for the "Mail & Newsgroups"
component, for security reason.)
Yes, that's set too. As I said, I think we have similar strategies, but
differ in some tactics...
--
Thanks beforehand for your attention, and I hope to hear from you soon.
s) Alexander Yudenitsch <ale...@postpro.net>
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