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Scam detection option

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zonnewijzer
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I know how this function works (Extra, Options, E-mailscams, and then tick or untick the box over there), but I am just not satisfied about it, and that over the years. I want to have it more refined over there, in a way that there can be set up to sender level for exceptions to this scam detection (meanwhile having a scam false positive for one specific sender all the time). But I find it too crude to untick that box and want to keep this form of detection and protection.

Thank you.

I know how this function works (Extra, Options, E-mailscams, and then tick or untick the box over there), but I am just not satisfied about it, and that over the years. I want to have it more refined over there, in a way that there can be set up to sender level for exceptions to this scam detection (meanwhile having a scam false positive for one specific sender all the time). But I find it too crude to untick that box and want to keep this form of detection and protection. Thank you.

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Matt
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The tracking bug for this is here. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654502

All the numbers n Depends on are bugs raised for various changes to the scam filtering. I am sure you can find the one your talking about there. There are plenty to go around.

zonnewijzer
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Hi Matt,

Thanks.

Sure it could be possible that false detection for the sender in my case would be listed among the raised bugs. I will look for that. But in my case this is from a Dutch sender (exclusiveprivatesales.nl) in the Dutch language as well, so I do not really expect that one to be listed as a false positive.

Moreover, not so much I meant to say there should be no false positives anymore using this scam detection function (hardly possible, I guess), but more I meant to say there should be a possiblity for users for listing scam detection exceptions (making a white list) within this scam detection function of Thunderbird, up to the sender's level (in this case this would be for: exclusiveprivatesales.nl). So, within Thunderbird itself, with "user interaction".

Considering the workarounds read by me now, two possibilities seem to be most appropriate here: 1) simply turn this function "Off" ("On" apparently is worse than nothing, as it was stated) or 2) whitelisting the sender's website. But where to accomplish that within Thunderbird, if possible for this indeed? I cannot find that for this this scam function specifically. I only can find the message filtering function as to making lists in an interactive way, and, as this seems to me, this just does not apply to scam filtering and the scam detection function. So, making a rule, for instance for exclusiveprivatesales.nl, would let the scam detection for e-mails from there intact, I suppose.

Besides, I have made filtering rules within Thunderbird for other cases indeed, for spam detection, in most cases. But that is a different subject, I suppose.

Matt
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Whitelisting is one of the items in the bug reports. The bugs are not messages from "XXXX" being flagged they are about whitelisting, adding the ability to learn as the spam filter has and a load of other things. I leave the detection turned on, but if it bothers you. Just turn it off.

I like it because it tends to identify folks using tracking tools to monitor the mail they send and I like to know if my local parliamentarian for instance is in this for his information or my privacy. But I also treat it s nothing more than a "this might be something to consider" rather than a full on warning.