1341253 - Report that a message is not a scam - whitelist "good" domains

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 320351

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[u589498]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0
Build ID: 20170125094131

Steps to reproduce:

I clicked on the button [Ignorer l'avertissement pour ce message] - maybe in english [Ignore warning for this message] but for all ulterior e-mails I received from the domain name that I had autorized, the warning remains displayed. There is no option allowing create an exception or report that the e-mail received is not a scam. Just on other option to disable the warning for all e-mails received.
[Sorry for clumsy english, my native language is french]


Actual results:

I received e-mails from domain names that belong to legal french associations and parties as [m6r.fr] [lepartidegauche. [jlm2017.fr] [jean-luc-melenchon.fr] and these have been reported by Thunderbind with a warning that indicates [Ce message est peut-être frauduleux] - maybe in english [This message may be fraudulent (scam)].
[Sorry for clumsy english, my native language is french]


Expected results:

When the warning is ignored for a domain name, all the e-mails sent by this last should be displayed without warning. An interface to manage exceptions and report to Thunderbird that e-mails received are not fraudulent (scam) would be welcome.
[Sorry for clumsy english, my native language is french]

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I read up on this:
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Basics/Thunderbird-s-Scam-Detection/ta-p/16363

After enabling the option, I found a message that was considered a scam. But all I can do is ignore the warning and edit the options, which takes me to |Tools > Options, Security, E-mail scams|, where I can switch the warnings off globally.

So I guess the the reporter is asking for a white-list. Who knows something about this scam warning?

Comment 2

[u589498]

Thank you for vour reply. Exactly, a « white-list » should be the better solution.
If you wish it, I joined a screenshot in my first message where you can see the warning in an interface of Thunderbird 45.7.1 with Windows 10 (64 bits).
[Sorry for clumsy english, my native language is french]

Comment 3

[u589498]

If some people understand french, I have opened a topic on a french help site animated by volunteers of Mozilla softwares, that gives more explanations : https://forums.mozfr.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=132599
[Sorry for clumsy english, my native language is french]

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I speak French, but I don't think that your thread as provided any insights. I have to find out from other developers how this scam notification function works and whether we can implement a whitelist.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I've worked with it in the past. 

The detection is a bit over-simplistic, and I've been planning to fix the warning. Bug 691901 comment 14.
Possibly that could also remember what to do for which domains yes.

Comment 6

[Matt]

Is this not a duplicate of Bug 320351

Comment 7

[rsx11m]

(In reply to Matt from comment #6)
> Is this not a duplicate of Bug 320351

Yes, though that bug is a mess by now, but technically white-listing linked-to domains is the substance of this report. Please read bug 320351 comment #34 why white-listing the sender's domain is /not/ a solution to the problem, even though it seems to be the most intuitive step.

Bug 691901 might help too, and there are other bugs referred to from meta bug 654502.

Comment 8

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Please be careful when editing bugs, you've just obliterated the summary.