Re: [MlMt] What's with the skulls?
I found the graphic both creepy and sometimes shown incorrectly so I disabled it via this terminal command: defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmNospoofSymbolDisabled -bool YES -Eric On Feb 16, 2019 at 02:01:24 EST, Dave C wrote: I suggest another graphic, something less... creepy. Dave > What's with the skulls that MailMate displays in the return addresses of some > messages? > > > > I've viewed the raw messages to try to figure out what prompts this kind of > display, but I only see an @ symbol. > > This is something that MailMate does to help users detect @ symbols in the > name part of an address header, which is one simple pattern of email > spoofing. This blog post by Benny explains more: > > https://blog.freron.com/2017/email-spoofing/ > > Quoting from the post: > > In the most recent test release of MailMate I’ve added the following > improvement: Whenever the name part of an address header contains a @ then > it’s replaced with a skull (💀). That should at least make the user aware of > simple attempts to spoof an address header. > > Sherif > > ___ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] What's with the skulls?
Sherif Soliman wrote (at 22:58 on 15 Feb 2019): This is something that MailMate does to help users detect @ symbols in the name part of an address header, which is one simple pattern of email spoofing. This blog post by Benny explains more: https://blog.freron.com/2017/email-spoofing/ Thank you, Sherif, for finding and linking to the blog post! ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] What's with the skulls?
Eric Sharakan wrote (at 6:14 on 16 Feb 2019): I found the graphic both creepy and sometimes shown incorrectly so I disabled it via this terminal command: defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmNospoofSymbolDisabled -bool YES -Eric On Feb 16, 2019 at 02:01:24 EST, Dave C wrote: I suggest another graphic, something less... creepy. Yes, I'm a trifle embarrassed to be bothered, but I find the graphic unnerving as well. Eric, thanks for the terminal command. John ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] What's with the skulls?
If would be better if the email is marked read or yellow woth a red mark to show the problem better And it should be only red if the email not match the original email... Von meinem iDingens gesendet... > Am 16.02.2019 um 17:02 schrieb John Cooper : > > Eric Sharakan wrote (at 6:14 on 16 Feb 2019): > >> I found the graphic both creepy and sometimes shown incorrectly so I >> disabled it via this terminal command: >> >> defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmNospoofSymbolDisabled -bool YES >> >> -Eric >> >> On Feb 16, 2019 at 02:01:24 EST, Dave C wrote: >> >> I suggest another graphic, something less... creepy. > > Yes, I'm a trifle embarrassed to be bothered, but I find the graphic > unnerving as well. Eric, thanks for the terminal command. > > John > ___ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] What's with the skulls?
> I suggest another graphic, something less... creepy. it's telling you about something creepy ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
