Hello Jan, On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:54:25 +0200 GMT (10/08/2003, 22:54 +0700 GMT), Jan Oetjen wrote:
> But :D What if (consider the normal user) you > have no web interface but simply your POP3 Account on a normal domain. www.pop2web.com www.mail2web.com > Even if I do have a web interface for gmx, web.de and the likes I > personally find it a waste of time having to open my web interface, > log in, configure the spam (i.e. adding a new friend or so). Personal preferences. I'd rather filter on the server than downloading every known spam. > Additionally I do have more then one account and I'd like to configure > this once and only, not for every account again ;) I have problems per account. One receives a lot of spam, the other doesn't. One is a mailing list account (this one here), the other is private. I handle them differently, and IMHO with good reason. >> I just cancelled my first email address [...] because the provider >> doesn't offer a server-side spam filter function [...] > Well, since i received mostly any spam with this account I would have > to cancel it. You don't have to. It was my choice. > What just comes into my mind ;) My provider recently informed me that > I can have a spam filtering for my mailbox. It works the way that on > the server spam is marked in the header by "X-Spam: Yes" or something > like that. I could use this mark to force TB not to dl the email for > example. Yes, TB is excellent for that. GMX offers that choice too, but I still want to have the option of downloading it anyway, and GMX offers that too, as I described. > The more I think of it, the more i come to the conclusion that this > whole Spam Discussion and the question if a mail reader should check > for spam or not should be answered by ISPs. I disagree, and I think I have made my point by describing the way how GMX handles this matter. It works for me, but YMMV. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I've been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." (Bobby, 8) Message reply created with The Bat! 2.0 Beta/1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.0b1 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
