Bug 154870

Summary:	Spamfilter/ Blocking functions for yahoo-messenger and others
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	m.wege
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alpha_one_x86, cuciferus, lamarque
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Bug Depends on:	238859, 260386
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Description m.wege 2007-12-30 18:13:52 UTC

Version:           0.12.7 (using KDE 3.5.8, Kubuntu (gutsy) 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu3.1)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22-14-generic

I have a growing spamproblem with the yahoo-messenger and it would be really good to have configurable anti-spamfunctions, like:
- only receive messages from certain profiles (My main profile, which I actually never use for messaging and unfortunately can not be deleted is the main cause of the spam problem)
- dont accept messages containing webadresses from people who are not in the adressbook.
- have a captcha like questions as an automated response before displaying a message from a not in my addressbook person is accepted.

These are just some ideas. Would be great if this would be implemented in the yahoo-module or better for all of them. Yahoo is the only one, where I receive spam from, but others may not be so lucky.

Comment 1 Charles Connell 2008-01-26 22:46:09 UTC

Other than the captcha, you just described the Privacy plugin. As for the captcha, that would be an interesting plugin, should someone choose to write it. Closing bug.

Comment 2 m.wege 2008-01-27 00:36:45 UTC

Where can I find the privacy plugin? Is this new in 4.0 (I am not using it yet). A quick search on kde-apps.org as well as in kubuntu-repos did not bring up da result.

Comment 3 m.wege 2009-06-01 15:43:15 UTC

Now that I had the chance to see what the privacy plugin does. None of the wishes above is covered by the privacy plugin. Therefore I reopen and describe a little more.
Privacy plugin is nice, but not very sophisticated. I do not want to look my profile totally and only allow people to message me which are on the contact list. And I do not want to prevent people from sending me links, because that is what people of do. But I want a combination: Only allow people who are on my contact-list to send me links. This should keep out most of the spammers.

The other thing is yahoo specific: Yahoo allows you to have different messenger profiles. Apart from the one you normally use, your yahoo emailadresse automatically counts as a profile name and unfortunately it is impossible to turn it of and it is part of the yahoo directory. But I never used it for messaging. So all messages going for a special yahoo profile should be discarded.

Comment 4 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-03-20 04:13:49 UTC

*** Bug 232897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-03-27 03:52:11 UTC

*** Bug 269441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-03-27 20:30:54 UTC

*** Bug 269441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-15 23:28:16 UTC

Hello from the KDE Bugsquad!

Unfortunately, Yahoo has discontinued the Yahoo Messenger service, and the code has been removed from Kopete.

Thus, I am closing this bug as "UNMAINTAINED" since it will no longer be fixable, or able to operate due to Yahoo.