I am writing to suggest the Evolution help file be updated with instructions on how to safely capture a malicious email, and further, how to deal with some of the malicious emails and yet further, how to clean up the system if a really persistent bad email can not be removed.
Additionally, we should have a way of collecting some captured emails, defanging them and making them available as test tools so a system administrator can confirm instances of Evolution on user machines are updated and safe from malicious take-over. I got a really nasty email that drew red lines and switched all incoming mail to the Junk folder. Fooling me for several days. I have been running Evolution on Ubuntu Linux for years. The other day about November 8, 2018. I received a remarkably malicious email, which was so nasty I deleted it with prejudice. This email drew a red line through about six subject lines 3 above and 3 below itself. Further, this email routed all my incoming mail to the Junk folder. My guess is the method of drawing red lines was accomplished by filling the subject line with terminal control characters. That is an old trick dating back to teletype terminals that used backspace and overtyping to underline text. I started searching trying to find guidance on how to handle this email. I was puzzled that I simply couldn't find any good current information about this malicious email. My guess is this malicious email is an old trick being deliberately sent in hopes that the odd Evolution user such as myself is at the other end. The second trick that the malicious email did, is it routed all my emails to the Junk folder. This email appears to have poked a false account name called "Enabled checkbox On this computer Default greencheckbox maildir" into the preferences->account name table. Man, how did they do that? So it is a pretty nasty email. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
