Posted by chicagofan on 01/05/08 00:24

Sanukk wrote:
> David Nebenzahl wrote:
>> Tbird is a pretty damn good email *and* news client,
>
> It's a nice e-mail client, I now use it for that myself for all my mail. It
> is ONLY a damn good news client though if you compare it to M$ LookOut, I
> have tried a few times to use it for news, but it's just not man enough for
> the job.
>
>> with good filtering (so I'm told; I never use it; don't like to look at Usenet through
>> killfile-colored glasses).
>
> I'm afraid you were told wrong then. The mail filtering is a PITA if you
> collect mail from several different boxes, but for news, I'm told you
> /still/ can't apply a global filter to ALL groups.


I thought Thunderbird and SeaMonkey [both Mozilla code based] were
alike, and I can set global filters for all groups with SeaMonkey.

Have you tried selecting [highlighting] your newsserver and clicking on
the message filter option from the Tools menu? If TB is like SM, you
should be able to set your filter/s there.
bj

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