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Roedy Green

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Jun 5, 2008, 2:50:45 AM6/5/08
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I have been using Eudora for years. It was discontinued, supposedly
to go open source, but that is not happening. I have a major spam
problem, and the add on Spamnix works well.

If you were in my shoes what would you do?

In a vain attempt to make this on topic, it would be nice if I could
write Java plugins to do thing like sort my incoming mail.
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Dave Miller

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Jun 5, 2008, 8:53:42 AM6/5/08
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Roedy Green wrote:
> I have been using Eudora for years. It was discontinued, supposedly
> to go open source, but that is not happening. I have a major spam
> problem, and the add on Spamnix works well.
>
> If you were in my shoes what would you do?
>
> In a vain attempt to make this on topic, it would be nice if I could
> write Java plugins to do thing like sort my incoming mail.
Thunderbird is good - built in and modifiable spam filters that work
pretty well.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/


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Roland de Ruiter

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Jun 5, 2008, 10:57:35 AM6/5/08
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On 5-6-2008 14:53, Dave Miller wrote:
> Roedy Green wrote:
>> I have been using Eudora for years. It was discontinued, supposedly
>> to go open source, but that is not happening. I have a major spam
>> problem, and the add on Spamnix works well.
>>
>> If you were in my shoes what would you do?
>>
>> In a vain attempt to make this on topic, it would be nice if I could
>> write Java plugins to do thing like sort my incoming mail.
> Thunderbird is good - built in and modifiable spam filters that work
> pretty well.
>
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
>
>

+1

And since the $29.95 costing Spamnix also is a learning-based spam
blocker --according to their website-- I expect you'll get similar
results with Thunderbird's Bayesian based spam filtering (and for free).

There are several extensions for Thunderbird available, already, and you
can always develop your own (see
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension>), with
Javascript, not Java, and a whole bunch of other XML based techniques.
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Jerry McBride

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Jun 5, 2008, 12:59:38 PM6/5/08
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Roedy Green wrote:

> In a vain attempt to make this on topic, it would be nice if I could
> write Java plugins to do thing like sort my incoming mail.


Roedy,

Surely you jest? You probably forgot more about Java than I can remember.


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The Ghost In The Machine

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Jun 5, 2008, 2:46:54 PM6/5/08
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In comp.lang.java.advocacy, Roedy Green
<see_w...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote
on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:50:45 GMT
<n23f44tsh09l92cvb...@4ax.com>:

> I have been using Eudora for years. It was discontinued, supposedly
> to go open source, but that is not happening. I have a major spam
> problem, and the add on Spamnix works well.
>
> If you were in my shoes what would you do?
>
> In a vain attempt to make this on topic, it would be nice if I could
> write Java plugins to do thing like sort my incoming mail.

FWIW, I've found Evolution an acceptable replacement for
Microsoft's Exchange mail client (I would forget its exact
name) but can't say regarding Eudora; I've never used it.

I don't know if Evolution will run on Windows.

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Roedy Green

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Jun 5, 2008, 3:01:48 PM6/5/08
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:59:38 -0400, Jerry McBride
<jmcb...@mail-on.us> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>Roedy,
>
>Surely you jest? You probably forgot more about Java than I can remember.

I talk about it more. 112,000 posts on Google compared with your
1500.

Jerry McBride

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Jun 5, 2008, 5:40:37 PM6/5/08
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Roedy Green wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:59:38 -0400, Jerry McBride
> <jmcb...@mail-on.us> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
> said :
>
>>Roedy,
>>
>>Surely you jest? You probably forgot more about Java than I can remember.
>
> I talk about it more. 112,000 posts on Google compared with your
> 1500.

God bless.


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Sabine Dinis Blochberger

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Jun 19, 2008, 12:15:51 PM6/19/08
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Roland de Ruiter wrote:
> On 5-6-2008 14:53, Dave Miller wrote:
>> Roedy Green wrote:
>>> I have been using Eudora for years. It was discontinued, supposedly
>>> to go open source, but that is not happening. I have a major spam
>>> problem, and the add on Spamnix works well.
>>>
>>> If you were in my shoes what would you do?
>>>
>>> In a vain attempt to make this on topic, it would be nice if I could
>>> write Java plugins to do thing like sort my incoming mail.

>> Thunderbird is good - built in and modifiable spam filters that work
>> pretty well.
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
>>

Yes, agreed. Although I don't use the learning spam filter, my brother
was very positive about it. He still does a review of filtered mails,
because some things like newsletters sometimes give a false positive.

Thunderbird is not the best for nntp though (IMHO).

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Lion-O

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Jun 25, 2008, 4:36:02 PM6/25/08
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>> If you were in my shoes what would you do?
>>
>> In a vain attempt to make this on topic, it would be nice if I could
>> write Java plugins to do thing like sort my incoming mail.
> Thunderbird is good - built in and modifiable spam filters that work
> pretty well.
>
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Seconded here as well. Another big keyfeature (IMO) is that it runs on several
platforms (Windows, Linux, etc) and that its also easy to transfer data between
those platforms (copying message filters and spam filters for example).


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