On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 12:59 -0500, Howard Howell wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 09:59 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 11:05 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > On 12/2/18 10:46 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > > I'll be happy to send you an HTML message with a link whose
> > > > destination URL seems to be
> > > > https://www.whitehouse.gov, but once clicked you'll wind up on 
> > > > https://pornhub.com
> > > 
> > > FWIW, with T-Bird it is easy to recognize this deception.  To see
> > > if what is displayed in
> > > the message is different than where you will be sent you just need
> > > to hover your cursor
> > > over the link.  The actual link will be displayed in the lower left
> > > next to the "online"
> > > indicator.
> > 
> > AFAIK most MUAs do that (at least those I've seen), as well as most
> > browsers.
> > 
> > poc
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> I'm still using evolution in F28 and it doesn't do that.  If I am
> interested, I copy the link location and paste it into a new email. 
> Generally I'm not interested, so it is not too troubling.  but it would
> be nice if the hover function worked in evolution too.
> 

I'm now on F29 (Evolution 3.20.3) and it definitely does do that. AFAIK
it has done so for the last several years, but of course I can't be
sure without rolling it back.

poc
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