T-Bird Help and Dr MeMe

[binidj]

Thunderbird is proving really quite splendid in many ways, but it does insist on labelling my LJ alerts as probably scams and hiding the images from me. Do you, Gentle Reader, have any idea how I might instruct my fledgling email software that posts from LJ are just fine and that it should leave them alone?

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Comments

[silks-ic.livejournal.com]

Add the sender (Livejournal or whatever it is) to your address book
There's an option in Junk Mail Settings (Default is ON) to allow anything through that's sent by someone in your address book

[quintus.livejournal.com]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Junk_Mail_Controls#Training_the_Junk_Mail_Controls

Go to the junk bin, right click on the email that's been wrongly filed and select "Oi! That's not spam, yooooo slaaaag!" (If you've installed a Sweeney related theme -grin-)

[silks-ic.livejournal.com]

Or that...
Damn you Mozilla for making things easy!

[binidj.livejournal.com]

LJ responses aren't being sent to the Junk folder, they're being sent to the "LJ" folder, just where I want them =)

At the top of the preview panel however, there is a big friendly yellow line which says "Thunderbird thinks this message might be an email scam". Adding the LJ response address to my contacts list has allowed me to just see the pictures rather than clicking on "not a scam" then "show me the f*****g pictures". Still the "email scam" message is just a tiny bit annoying.

[quintus.livejournal.com]

Weird, mine never did that and I am pretty sure I didn't add LJ to the address book. I'll take a squint at my copy when I get home.

Some googling reveals that I may have turned off the 'email scam' filter.

Sorted as I found out that it is a common problem and the option to stop this action against e-mails is within the tools/options/privacy section. Just a tick in the box, or not in this case. This option whilst very good has not really been worked out properly and several people have told mozilla.

(From a PC advisor forum)

I think I have mine set to not run HTML or display images unless I tell it, but not to bother me with warnings about email potentially being a scam or phishing.