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 <davec2...@gmail.com> 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
>
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