513815 - Provide Scam filter on/off toggle button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 463249

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[NoOp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090717 SeaMonkey/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090717 SeaMonkey/2.0b1

In Thunderbird 3.x an option is provided to turn the Scam filter on/off - see attached screenshot. 

In SeaMonkey 2.0 there is no such option and the only way to turn the filter off is to toggle 'mail.phishing.detection.enabled' in
about:config to 'false'. I am unsure where the best location for the toggle to appear, but perhaps adding it to Edit|Preferences|Mail & Newsgroups|Junk Mail would suffice? An alternate location might be Edit|Preferences|Mail & Newsgroups|Notifications, as this is after all a "Notification" of sorts.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[NoOp]

Attachment: Scam toggle option in Thunderbird 3.0

Comment 2

[Benoît]

Taking this bug, looks easy enough.

If string freeze wasn't in effect, this could still have been added to SeaMonkey 2.0. :(

Comment 3

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Repeating what I wrote in the newsgroups:

FWIW, I think it doesn't fit into Notifications at all and Mail & Newsgroups itself is probably a bit too general so I'd say Junk Mail is as close as we can get (we should probably create a new groupbox there, though). But let's discuss that in the bug once you filed it.

Comparing with TB I guess KaiRo won't like adding a new pane with just one checkbox (and no indication of more to come) so I think the above is really the best bet.

Comment 4

[Bill Davidsen]

I think this make sense, that's where people would look for it.

In the long run, it would be useful to have it a characteristic of the account or folder rather than global, or allow a per-account override. Reason: I don't object in eMail, but it is annoying in most RSS feeds, and I'd like to disable in a few NNTP feeds as well.

I heavily split my mail with filters, it would be nice to be able to have both junk mail and scam alerting as actions of a filter. I realize that unless this suggestion is easy no one will take it seriously.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

Sorry to hijack your bug Benoit, but while working on bug 463249 I fixed the scam preference as well.