I’m helping my older neighbor deal with tons of spam email that she’s getting. For dealing with spam I thought about using thunderbird with with some extensions and making comprehensive filters. To reduce the volume in the future I thought about using deleteme and simplelogin so that her information doesn’t continue to be spread.

Anyone have thoughts on the approach or maybe improvements that could be better?

  • ISOmorph@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Like @merde@sh.itjust.works said, several accounts for a tech illiterate person is counter productive. Unsubscribe what you can unsubscribe and then filter rules on thunderbird like you proposed. That’s how I do it with my elderly parents.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed, this is the only way. Multiple accounts for an elderly person is not going to work.

      Thunderbird, and unsubscribe to everything that enters. That’ll cut your spam in half at least