1198446 - phishing warning although the address is in my address book

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect, P3)

Description

[arno]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150812163655

Steps to reproduce:

have '[e-mail]' in your address book
receive an email from this address


Actual results:

red Warning bar: this could be 'Phishing'


Expected results:

no warning for mails from addresses is in my address book

Comment 1

[arno]

About the address itself: this is a non-profit organization organizing on-line petitions. 
Of course they send mass e-mails (but no spam)
And of course when signing the on-line petition you enter your e-mail address on the web-page. But 
1. I have no indication for mis-use of these data so I wonder where this warning comes from and
2. if an e-mail address is in my address book I do not want this warning at all

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

A phishing attempt wouldn't be very successful if it came from someone unknown now would it?
(Most likely the mail contains a link that goes somewhere it doesn't look like it would go, perhaps for not necessary evil tracking purposes)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Indeed, we see address spoofing all the time.
wontfix based on comment 2