"Col" wrote in message
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On 30/10/2015 14:08, Martin Brown wrote:
On 30/10/2015 13:46, Col wrote:
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Anyone know how to use the killfile in Mozilla Thunderbird? Now I've
downloaded a 'proper' newsreader and am no longer using Google Groups
I'd like to be rid of this idiot once and for all.

For a beginner the quickest way is right click on the offender's From
address in the headers and select "create filter from" bottom ooption in
popup box and it will populate the fields for you.

Change (*) Match all of the following to Match any and then you can add
other rabid loons to the same basic filter by clicking "+".

Name the filter "Rabid Loons" or "Netkook" according to taste.

You can add extra fields and block spam injecting newservers by adding a
few extra header fields too. Minor irritation for news is that the
filters only act on new incoming headers and not on stuff already here.

Whereas filters applied to email can be used against a selected folder
to test their behaviour. PS If anyone has found a satisfactory wildcard
or regex addin for TB I would be very interested to hear of it.

It is the only thing I miss in TB relative to the venerable TurnPike.



Hmmmm.....
That right click doesn't work for me but it seems to lead to the same
place as Metman's directions which do work.

Boringly, I have called the filter simply 'Killfile'


So you can now call yourself a plonker! Col :-)

Will
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