I keep receiving email from myself
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(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
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(Reporter: ehodzic, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.119 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
- Edit "From:" address and use custom. Enter the address of the recipient manually.
- Enter recipient "To:" address
- Send email
- It appears to recipient that he received an email from him/herself
Actual results:
I get spam emails from server in Russia. Somebody claims he/she hacked my email and want 1000 USD in bitcoin not to release some data he/she allegedly collected.
Email screenshot attached.
Expected results:
It should not be possible to change sender name and email address.
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Unfortunately someone sending to you spoofing YOUR email address (or anyone's) is pretty trivial. You can see some items related to this in https://mzl.la/2EtOyXy But preventing someone from sending with an improper address to a Thunderbird user is not something we can prevent. But you can ask about it at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird
As for YOU being able to spoof someone else's address, see resolved Bug 1254666 - "edit as new message" on a received message prefills the sender as the composing identity and unresolved Bug 1270282 - 'customize from address' should be suppress-able
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