322553 - Spam-friendly Message-IDs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Hadmut Danisch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051217 Debian/1.5.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051217 Debian/1.5.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5

Hi,

Thunderbird takes the domain part of the e-mail address as the domain for Message-IDs. Thus, my IDs look like [e-mail]

That's causing me a lot of trouble. Spammers sweep through mailing list archives to collect everything which matches an e-mail address pattern. Thus, every Message-ID becomes an e-mail address in the spammers address lists.

For some special reason I need to accept any e-mail to my domain (having a catchall address). I therefore do receive tons and tons of spam to these Message-ID addresses.

Would be nice if thunderbird would choose better Message-IDs or at least allow to configure the domain part. 


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Karsten Düsterloh]

> That's causing me a lot of trouble. Spammers sweep through mailing list
> archives to collect everything which matches an e-mail address pattern. Thus,
> every Message-ID becomes an e-mail address in the spammers address lists.

That's almost independent of the "look" of a MID, since MIDs and email addresses share most characteristics.

> For some special reason I need to accept any e-mail to my domain (having a
> catchall address). I therefore do receive tons and tons of spam to these
> Message-ID addresses.

Sorry to say, but that's no Mozilla.org fault.

> Would be nice if thunderbird would choose better Message-IDs

That won't help.

> or at least allow to configure the domain part. 

But you can:
<http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.browser/browse_thread/thread/dd555a8c47ebf33a/f77ecb61f2fdd3e9?lnk=st&q=mozilla++fqdn+user.js+message+id&rnum=2&hl=en#f77ecb61f2fdd3e9>
<http://www.holgermetzger.de/mailundnews.html#321> (German)