282985 - Not Possible to Disable Phishing Warnings

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jerry Baker]

Thunderbird thinks every email sent to me from my hosting provider is a phishing
scam and displays a warning. I want to get rid of that warning because I know it
isn't a phishing scam, but apparently there isn't a way to do that yet.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, is this the same problem as reported in bug 279191 comment 29 ? See
the disccusions in bug 254913 and bug 279191 ; we still have a lot of work to do
to perfect the detector.

I think it would be better to fizx the code if we can determine that's it's not
a real threat, then to disable the warning completely. Your request is the first
oen that ask for this anyway.

Comment 2

[Jerry Baker]

It seems that the Thunderbird team is determined to try and guess which messages
are phishing scams. As with all things where guessing is involved, there will be
a lot of situations where the guess is wrong. I want to be able to address that.
I would prefer to turn off Thunderbirds phishing detection altogether, but in
all honesty I didn't bother requesting that because I expect that I will be told
I need to be protected by the infinite wisdom of the phishing scam detector and
so it will not be possible to disable it.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: add options UI for the phishing preference

Comment 4

[Jesse Coddington]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=175100) [edit]
> add options UI for the phishing preference
> 

Might be a dumb question, but what if you want phishing enabled, but say have a
safe list of email addresses not to scan for phishing.