Closed Bug 781884 Opened 12 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Thunderbird scam detection generates false positives on all mail from well-known websites

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

15 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 691901

People

(Reporter: crazyskeggy, Unassigned)

Details

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a message from a well-known website (e.g. noreply@facebookmail.com / *@postmaster.twitter.com / *@windowslivemail.com / alerts@live.com)
2. Check for a scam detection alert

Actual Results:

The scam detection alert is there

Expected Results:

There is no scam detection alert as it is a well-known website (e.g. facebook.com / twitter.com / live.com (last two) respectively)
Component: General → Message Reader UI
Certainly a duplicate of one of these bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654502

Could you attach some messages in order to understand what is the problem exactly?
This is most frequently caused by the link pointing to a different address than it says in the text shown for the link. To be conclusive, we would need to see both the link itself along with the text on top of it (i.e., using Ctrl+U to see the message source, then paste the full <a href=...>...</a> part of the HTML link).

As discussed in other bug reports, either allowing the user to keep a local white list of acceptable link/text combinations or a global phishing list could resolve the issue, neither of which is currently implemented but covered by other bugs.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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