It has been requested on and off since Thunderbird was first released. I think there are even requests going back to Netscape 18 years ago. SO I do not think we will be seeing anything soon.

It should be so easy to do and would help users so much. We are on version 80 now, and very few updates make much of a difference to the user.

Your preaching to the choir Here is the history https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71413

Spam filtering history https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11035

It would literally take about 5-10 minutes to program this and save the users hours and hours. In the last 2-3 days, I've done 22 of the right-click on the address, From filter, change to Delete, and save the filter. That could be automated, put it in the right-click popup that has "ignore thread", verify that you want to do it, and create the filter.

re :It would literally take about 5-10 minutes to program this

If you can code a fix for this in 5-10 minutes then why not post a comment offering your services in that bug report.

You tend to find that the limited resources usually get directed in areas that either need a fix or the functionality does not exist. But in this instance, a solution exists, so a low priority.

Is there any reason why you have not trained the Junk Controls to deal with it? Or used the webmail facilities to send it to Spam. Which if you a pop account would mean you don't even see it.

I get plenty of spam, but it's all goes automatically to Junk/Spam and I do not create any special filters. It would drive me potty creating filters for everything I do not want. I set up Junk Controls and trained it. Now hardly any end up in Inbox.

If I had worked on the program and knew how it worked, I could do it in 5-10 minutes. But I haven't worked on the problem.

For some reason, a bunch of them started getting through two or three weeks ago.

With limited resources, I would think that they would consider the high benefit and low cost of doing it.