SeaMonkey thinks something is a scam

I'm using SeaMonkey v1.1.4 as my browser and e-mail client.

Each weekday I get 4 e-mailed reports from a financial firm I deal with. And each message causes a warning to appear saying "SeaMonkey believes this message might be an e-mail scam." There's also a Not a Scam button, and each day for each report I press that button thinking that SM will learn I want the message and it's not a scam. But SM doesn't learn. I've also entered the company's e-mail address in the Address Book, but that doesn't help, either.

SM doesn't mark the messages as being Junk. It just pops up those warnings. Does SM see a difference between junk and spam messages?

What can I do to get SM to not regard those reports as possible e-mail scam messages? What is the exact procedure?

 

I have been able to find a setting to turn off the scan warning. It may be in your prefs.js. I, just know that it is a nuisance, and that SM does not learn. It is work in progress. If anyone knows how Seamonkey gives some e-mail a bad score, I would appreciate knowing. However, it is not half as bad as some of the security measures taken by AOL. Messages were given a negative score according to the presence or absence of certain features. And, the messages which had a certain scores were delivered to the Spam folder. Some of the negative scores were due to HTML format, or if the message was sent from unrecognized mail program, such as a nightly, and, more silly stuff.
Since it happens with only a few e-mails, and it does not cause trouble, I put up with it.

 

Think if you add the address to your email addresses it may stop.

 

Please try:
config editor - filter on:
mail.phishing.detection.enabled
set to = false

Also "google" for "mail.phishing.detection.enabled "

HTH

regards:captjlddavis

 

Thanks, everybody, for your replies.

I made the change to the line in the prefs file by double-clicking on it to toggle from True to False. The 4 reports should arrive late this afternoon, which will be the test. When I learn whether the fix worked or not, I'll let you know.

Ramona: In case making that change doesn't work, do I get the line from your reply into the prefs file just by copying and pasting it? Or does it require using a different procedure?

 

If the line is different from what you have, yes.
Do you know that Thunderbird has a preference which can be unchecked to take care of it?

 

Fulvio,

BOBBO said:

AFAIK there is NO UI in SM......
but I could be wrong......

regards:captjlddavis

 

The news is good.

The 4 reports arrived late this afternoon as they usually do and this time there was none of that "message might be an e-mail spam" nonsense. So your fix fixed it.

My thanks to all the good folks here who again made the world safe for decent men, women and children everywhere.

 

I made the remark about TB, only as information, in case all efforts in SM failed.
I, fully, understood that our friend had SM. Good, it works.