Thunderbird extension wanted
By glazou on Friday 10 September 2004, 21:26 - Mozilla - Permalink
I want an extension to Thunderbird that would allow me, through an option in the junk mail controls, to automatically send back to spammers a mailer-daemon error "user unknown"... Does it exist already? Yeah, bad idea, nevermind.
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Thank you in advance for NOT DOING SUCH DUMBASS THING. Thanks.
Why ? Because the From: header in spams is FORGED (and even sometimes using real addresses of somebody with no relation (i sometimes get mailer-daemon bounces showing me the original spam message with a From: from *me*)).
Much more useful would be an extension that actually finds out whether a mailer-daemon message was really triggered by an email I sent. Each day, I get several bounces on worm or spam mails I did not send, but that have my adress in the From: line. So I don't want to delete all bounces, as some might really relate to a mail I sent...
glandium: good point.
it make no sense. do you think, they read their millions emails' undeliverable answers?
Sathia: No, but many bots drop no user bounces from their list creation setups for a couple of months.
What I would like is an extension that allows groups of messages to be selected and then sent to SpamCop.
Right now I have to manually forward each spam to SpamCop and that can become tedious.
@navid: Did you ever receive a answer from a abuse desk? It seems for like 100% of the mails i report over spamcap i never get a reply from the abuse desk. Maybe i'm just reporting mails which come from a ISP, which abuse desk is very worse anyway...
I think this would be a useful tool for another reason. I have some catchall e-mail addresses for small URL's I manage and sometimes get mail sent to me when someone made a type error in the address. With this potential extension I could just click a button and the sender would get a bounced message and see they typed the address wrong and know they need to forward it to the proper address.
to mcsmurf: I don't think you should be getting anything back from abuse desks when you report spam to SpamCop. SpamCop hides your e-mail address when reporting spam. The point of SpamCop is not to get your specific e-mail off their lists, but for the ISPs to close accounts.
Daniel: one of the things that i really appreciate about you is your willingness to admit that you overlooked something. Thanks.
jens.b: That is an awesome idea. It should be added to the junk mail filter - it should be a core feature, not even an extension. I wonder how hard it would be - does anyone know if there is a standard format for bounced email messages?
navid: when i understand the postings on the SpamCop mailing-list right, Spamcop sends as From a generic adress such as 123456@spamcop.net to the abuse desk. When the abuse desk replies, Spamcop will forward the reply to your mail adress.
navid: "What I would like is an extension that allows groups of messages to be selected and then sent to SpamCop."
Select the messages, then choose "Forward as attachments" in the context menu.
I'd like an easier way of installing extensions in TB... Something that pulls up a list from u.m.o or similar, lets you click on an Extension and install it all from within TB.
The whole having to browse, save to disk, switch to TB, open Extension Manager, click Install, browse to the saved XPI, run through the installation of it, then delete the XPI process... is to say the least, frustrating. It's makes the process of installing extensions far more a chore than it is in FF.
I can only hope that it'll be a 1.0 blocker for Thunderbird
And what about a voodoo extension that gives all spammers wifes a headache with HTTP 403 response?
It is not so nonsense at all : i recieve 1 mail per week, completely blank. I suppose this is a scanning method, but this works only if you send immediately a response. Any sendmail.cf guru there ?
Mmhhh... I've been digitally signing all my outgoing email with OpenPGP for the past few years, using Enigmail + TB since several months. That makes it very clear which emails are really from me or not. There's also a link to my "Contact" page [1] in every email (example [2]).
[1] www.fabianrodriguez.com/c...
[2] isf.waglo.com/pipermail/m...
Hmm, I *sort* of found what you were looking for.
mailredirect.mozdev.org/
Cheers
-Jed
Anyone know of an extension that allows you to archive multiple messages and or multiple attachments into a directory? Thanks.