537663 - The name-resolve feature for the TO field makes spam look as sent to me (my fullname displays, but never typed by sender)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[u368322]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

The new version of Thunderbird resolves the TO address to my fullname. This is not acceptable, since messages (including spam) sent to my email address appear in Thunderbird as addressed specifically to me (since it appears the sender called me by name). This is not good if the spam turns out to be a scam or phishing. You need to turn off that name-resolve feature for the TO field (at least it should not resolve names for email addresses that belong to my email accounts).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Remko de Keijzer]

I'm using the same version of Thunderbird [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0] and I don't experience this. 
When I get messages where the sender didn't use my name, but only my emailaddress, it still shows the emailaddress and not my full name.

Comment 2

[u368322]

Well, it keeps showing my full name on mine. But kinda unstable behavior, since some time it shows the full name with a yellow start next to it, and sometimes other times just the word "Me" with the same yellow start next to it. Weird.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

can you look into those different emails and try to find a pattern that makes the bahavior change ?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

can you reproduce this using a current version of thunderbird?

if you are unable to reproduce, please close by setting stats to resolved, and resolution to WORKSFORME or another appropriate setting.

If you are able to reproduce, add new details, and a testcase if one does not already exist in the bug report.

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error please respond to this bug with your reasons why.