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How can I filter (send to trash) all non-english messages?

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I am getting an overload of oriental language (Chinese) and slavic langauge (Russian or similar) emails. I a perfect world Thunderbird would filter all non-english messages into my trash folder or block them. Does anyone have any ideas?? Thank you

I am getting an overload of oriental language (Chinese) and slavic langauge (Russian or similar) emails. I a perfect world Thunderbird would filter all non-english messages into my trash folder or block them. Does anyone have any ideas?? Thank you

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... filter them before they even hit my inbox.

Then you'd need to filter on the server. E.g. Gmail has a pretty good spam filter. Or you can use a third party software running on your PC filtering your mail prior to Thunderbird getting it. Both would be outside the scope of this forum.

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I think your best bet is to train your junk mail filter. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Junk_Mail_Controls

Thanks so much for your reply. That is certainly a fix but it will only work from "repeat" senders. I will start marking my junk and set up a filter for junk mail but I'd still like to be able to filter them before they even hit my inbox. Thanks again,

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... filter them before they even hit my inbox.

Then you'd need to filter on the server. E.g. Gmail has a pretty good spam filter. Or you can use a third party software running on your PC filtering your mail prior to Thunderbird getting it. Both would be outside the scope of this forum.

Thanks again for your reply.