Open Bug 1099945 Opened 11 years ago Updated 5 months ago

Want to use wildcards in Remote Content exceptions

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Security
Version:
31 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: CarlPonder, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 Build ID: 20141013200408 Steps to reproduce: I want to condense my list of "Remote Content" exceptions using wildcards. There are buisnesses like "aa.com" where I receive main from multiple sources and I would like to compact the list by adding forms like *aa.com Here's how I access the menU: Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Mail Content -> Exceptions Actual results: It gives me a list of explicit addresses. Expected results: What I want instead is a list of rules, where an explicit address is the simplest case, but wildcarded forms would enable me to compact the list quite a bit *aa.com *united.com etc. as well as be able to anticipate future e-mails from addesses I haven't received from yet.
One other thing which would be useful in this context, would be to order the list in a reverse-lexicographic order: aaaaa@aa.com zz@aa.com aaaaa@united.com zz@united.com By ordering the entries in a right-to-left comparison, it will cluster-together the addresses that originated from the same source domain. Note that this is *NOT* the same as reversing the top-to-bottom ordering in the standard left-to-right comparison.
Severity: normal → enhancement
If you want to allow aa.com and all subdomains, you can simply add the aa.com.
(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #2) > If you want to allow aa.com and all subdomains, you can simply add the > aa.com. so WFM?
Well we could consider adding the main domains as addable in the list we show.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Component: Untriaged → Security
(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #2) > If you want to allow aa.com and all subdomains, you can simply add the > aa.com. I tried this and it doesn't work, are you talking about manually entering it into the filter-file?
Yes. Maybe they made the permission manager more strict then...
Severity: normal → S3

I tried to add https://*.apple.com to the exceptions.
But it shows up as http://https above.

I think that's not a good behavior. Even if wildcards are not supported intentionally.

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