329798 - No way to mark mail as scam

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 320351

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Beck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Currently there is no way to mark mail scams as scam - you need to mark them as junk.  Which would be fine except that it means that there is not as much scam training going on as there should be.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Recieve in invitation to invest in the affais of DR MOHAMMED SESO SEKO
2. Hunt for button to mark mail as scam
3. Mark mail as junk instead

Actual Results:  
There is no "Mark this mail as a scam" button

Expected Results:  
There should be

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Currently there is no scam "training". And I am not sure it could be done the same way junk training is performed, since a well designed scam should look very much the same as a legit email. If you get the same scam over and over again, why not just let the junk filter eat it?

Anyway, dupe/related to bug 320351?

Comment 2

[Chris Beck]

It is certainly related to bug 320351.  I was simply thinking that if sometime tbird thinks mail is a scam then I should be able to help that - mail is going into the junk folder as scam not spam and so I want a way to mark mail as the appropriate thing.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I would imagine bug 328749 will give you some way to mark as scam... 

Comment 4

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

This is definitely covered by bug 320351. I'm not convinced that bug makes sense to fix, though. I'd rather try to use scam detection from a third-party database (e.g. Google Safebrowsing), since that would help protect people from scams they'd never seen before.