Thunderbird Scam Whitelists
Posted on August 1, 2007
I get daily emails from a supplier which Thunderbird kindly slaps a "“Thunderbird thinks this message might be an email scam.” message on the top - of every one.
Whilst not a problem it's annoying and takes up valuable TV real estate.
I know why. It's because their links use an IP address rather than a domain name. A phishing trick apparently?
Sure I could disable it, but I don't want to.
Adding the address to the Address Book is supposed to solve it. But it doesn't.
C'mon Mozilla sort it out!
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March 10th, 2008 - 15:12
Funny enough, it does it to every mail my girlfriends sends me
November 28th, 2008 - 20:27
A google search reveals that this is a contentious issue. The Mozilla maintainers responsible for the spam filtering won’t remove the ‘feature’, won’t document the ‘feature’, won’t write help for ne users on this ‘feature’, and won’t set the default to ‘off’. They claim Mozilla users are too stupid to turn this broken ‘feature’ on if they really want it:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318916
October 28th, 2009 - 16:06
On by default is sensible, but where’s the whitelist?!
April 19th, 2011 - 21:30
Where’s the whitelist?
Go to the tools/preferences menu, click on the Advanced tab, then “Config Editor”.
Search for mail.trusteddomains, then edit that to be a comma-separated list of domain names that you want to whitelist.
User-friendly? Nope. I whitelist ordinary stuff like college newsletters, but leave the protection in place for banks and other phishing targets.