297170 - Email context menu should have option "Add to blacklist"; maintain a blacklist of unwanted "From" addresses

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Tal Cohen]

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Spam is often sent repeatedly from the same sender. Thunderbird should maintain 
a blacklist of email addresses, so that any email from somebody in that list 
would immediately be deleted (or marked as junk for further training of the 
filter; this should be user-selectable).

Right now, users can right-click on the email address and select "Create filter 
from message" to create a filter that would delete any email from that source. 
However, this is a longer process, and results in multiple small filters --- 
rather than one large filter.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This can already be done by 
-creating an adressbook for the blacklisted emails. 
-create a filter Sender - is in my address book - blacklist

The context menu (while over the sender address) lets you add to the addressbook
of your choise. 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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