You can set up an address book - if you haven't already - and then tell TB to send all the emails from those correspondents into a specific folder. The ones that arrive in the Inbox should then be *mostly* spam. Go to the Three lines (top right)/Tools/Message Filters to set one up.

I would imagine that the unwanted emails are never from the same source so training TB to recognise them as junk won't be very helpful. But it might be worth trying for a while.

You didn't say which email provider you use. Many have their own kill-filters which could be set up if something in the emails is distinctive and recurring (or else some of the genuine ones would be kill-filed).

You could also get a new email address and migrate your correspondents over with time. But that's a bit of a faff.

A simple filter might also do this, since you indicate you receive from same ones

What do you mean that you got hacked? What do you think caused this change?

Are these people whom you don't know or are these spam messages?

Rick

Rick....Thanks for replying..............NO, I don't know ANY of these people & they all are not the same ones every day..I did, one day, do a delete on all of them in the Inbox, individually (Whew). but no joy. they all coming back the next day... I am now highlighting them all, every day, then doing a Delete, but that is sure getting OLD! ANY HELP WOULD BE aPPRECIATED............Ken

Hi Ken,

What do you mean that you got hacked? What do you think caused this change?

Are these spam messages?

Rick

Rick...Sory I misled U... They are NOT from the same person............K

Rick... Don't know or never heard from any of them. Sory.....Ken

Rick.....None are from individuals.. All are companies I have never heard of..................Ken

Ken,

Thanks for your responses. I would like very much to understand this situation better.

Would you please tell me why you believe that you were "hacked" and what "hacked" means to you?

What do you believe caused this change?

Why are you talking about re-entering your correspondents? Did you lose your contacts?

Rick

NO.. The day before the problem, someone tried to make a withdrawal from my checking account. My bank caught & stopped it. Then got a E Mail from a fake source saying that my e mail account was going to be corrupted... Then it started..............K

It's hard to know if these events are related. If the attempted withdrawal occurred over the Web, and you use the same password for your bank account and your e-mail account, maybe. It's unlikely that one person is going to the effort of sending you dozens of spam messages every day. But trying to solve all that would be outside the scope of Thunderbird.

If you believe that someone else has control of your e-mail account, you'll want to change your password or cancel the account.

As arlev wrote, you could try server-based filters and rules. I do believe that training Thunderbird to recognize spam would help. Spam filters usually consider more than just the source. I assume that Thunderbird's filter does too.

If you want to reduce your spam mail dramatically, there are other, more complex and expensive actions you could take.

Good luck.

Rick