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UPDATE: Sad news: I had to uninstall Spamato; it was interfering with Thunderbird's ability to send mail. It was promising, but not quite ready for heavy-user prime time.
 In response to my rant about spam, online friend and sysadmin wiz Bryan Venable sent me a few potential solutions, the first of which was a new GPL spam filter sysetem called Spamato, which plugs into several different email clients, including Thunderbird. It's beta, but works pretty well, certainly better than Thunderbird's own system. Spamato lets you choose any or all of several methods to filter spam, and sends all the bad stuff into a spamato mailbox where you can check for false positives. There's some overhead - you have to have Java installed, and you have to specify the location of your Java_Home (which sounds geeky, but clear instructions are immindently googlable). You have to enable for each install, and that takes a little time, and while it's happening you can't do much else. It also comes with annoying sounds turned on by default; you'll want to turn that off quickly. When I first turned it off, I missed the 'save' button for the sound configuration and thought it wasn't working - look carefully, it's at the bottom of the display.
Anyway, fingers crossed - I hope this is a winner.
jon posted this at 4:24 PM
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Great to hear that you gave Spamato a try :-) -- unfortunately, only for a short time...
But I would really like to know more about your problems. Especially the "interfering with Thunderbird's ability to send mail"-bug I can't understand since Spamato does not tinker with the sending of mails at all. Do you know about our forums and bug tracker on SourceForge (http://sf.net/projects/spamato)?
Anyway, thanks for that comment and stay tuned---we are working on the "winner" part :-)...
Posted by: Keno Albrecht | January 7, 2006 10:24 AM
Thanks, Keno! I haven't given up on Spamato... I was just going to give it more time. I'll definitely try it again.
Not sure why I had the outgoing mail problem, but I had the same experience with two different machines on different systems. When Spamato was set up, mail wouldn't send - I think this was only when spamato was active. I suggest memory because my email environment is complex and I have a LOT of spam...
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | January 7, 2006 10:40 AM
never had a problem with spamato with TB 1.5 It is not compatible with TB 2.0 Any idea when upgrade will be available?
Posted by: digs | April 24, 2007 10:45 AM