619854 - A third party taken my email address for promoting their site to me

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[mike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 NET_mmhpset (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: mozilla/5.0(windows;U;windows nt 5.1;en-US;rf.1.9.2.1.3) Gecko/10101207 lightning/1.0b2thunderbird/3.1.7

A site wants me to join their web site using name pulled from my e-mail address book and matching it with their current member list. How do i combat this and get my privacy back. There should be any way how to use my email address book. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. contact Mozilla
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Actual Results:  
have someone recommend you to facebook with address to user already on face book and in your address book

Expected Results:  
 3rd party not being able to match my email address book up with their current members

been secured so 3rd party could not see my address book

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

mike, your issue is not a thunderbird bug. please ask your question in a support forum http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/support/  Thanks.