Closed
Bug 535768
Opened 15 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
Mail filters on E-mail addresses should examine human-readable label part of E-mail source addresses
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)
MailNews Core
Filters
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: usenet, Unassigned)
Details
(Whiteboard: dupme?)
I regularly recieve E-mails with ostensible E-mail source addresses similar to fakename@example.com <DRUGNAME® approved reseller> where DRUGNAME is the name of a popularly-spammed drug. In spite of multiple attempts, I have not been able to detect these messages using mail filters, presumably because the mail filters do not inspect the human-readable name components of mail addresses. This seems to me to be non-obvious behaviour that violates the principle of leas surprise, and therefore should be fixed.
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Comment 1•15 years ago
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Correction: the example email address in the line above should have read: "DRUGNAME® approved reseller" <fakename@example.com>
Updated•15 years ago
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Component: General → Filters
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
QA Contact: general → filters
Whiteboard: dupme?
Comment 2•15 years ago
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(In reply to comment #0) > I have not been able to detect these messages using mail filters, > presumably because the mail filters do not inspect the human-readable name > components of mail addresses. > This works for me on my name (filtering for From Contains James, with incoming email "Kent James <kent@caspia.com>". You really need to test his on something simple first. I suspect that the spammer is disguising DRUGNAME with some unusual characters.
Comment 3•14 years ago
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WFM per comment 2
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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