Question SPAM and odd domain prefixes?

[kirkdickinson]

I find that a very large amount of spam that I get has weird domain extension. Like the following:
.lol
.click
.bond
.cfd
.rest
.digital
.fun
.page
.life
.services
.site
.world
etc....

If I just set a filter to block all of these, what are the chances that real legitimate email will also get blocked?

I am getting tired of all the spam. I use Thunderbird and the built in "Junk" button doesn't seem to do anything to lessen the volume of spam and neither does unsubscribing to them. I have yet to find a good 3rd party spam filter that works well with Thunderbird.

 

[Ralston18]

Missing legitimate emails is a valid concern.

Instead of blocking those emails outright I suggest that you set up some rules to move such emails into the trash folder or some other folder or even folders of your choice.

Then review the emails as warranted and move any legitimate emails to the Inbox.

Delete the remaining emails enmass thereafter.

May take a bit of experimenting to get it all to work.

You could start by testing based on the most frequently used domain extensions.

Not a Thunderbird user (full disclosure) so I am not familar with the specifics.

However, you could start here:

https://www.syscurve.com/blog/how-to-create-rules-in-thunderbird.html

And/or look for similar links and tutorials.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

As above. Thunderbird's default SPAM filters are good but do not handle the out of the norm stuff. You need to learn how to build filters (rules) to deal with these outliers. As for those off the wall domains, there's nothing legitimate using them so nuke everything from them.

Just make sure to add "Stop Filter Execution" to the end of every filter or execution will fall through to the next filter and may cause unintended consequences.

 

[kirkdickinson]

As above. Thunderbird's default SPAM filters are good but do not handle the out of the norm stuff.

I disagree. I think they are practically useless. Doesn't matter how many I mark and how long it seems to train, I get more and more junk mail every day than the day before.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

I disagree. I think they are practically useless. Doesn't matter how many I mark and how long it seems to train, I get more and more junk mail every day than the day before.

Your first (and worst) mistake was:
"....and neither does unsubscribing to them."

NEVER EVER reply to SPAM all it does is verify a live mailbox and you'll get even more. I suggest clearing any training already done and start over. You may well have a munged database. Make sure that you are actually marking each piece of mail you send to SPAM as SPAM and not just dragging/dropping. The filter doesn't record drag/drops.