On 2025-05-22 at 19:55:53 UTC-0400 (Thu, 22 May 2025 16:55:53 -0700)
John Cooper <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
Quinn Comendant via mailmate wrote (at 4:29 PM on Thursday, May 22,
2025):
On 22 May 2025, at 15:21, John Cooper wrote:
My suggestion meant to mention viewing the message pane and looking
at the return address of the message in its headers.
That's what I'm currently doing, but it requires opening the message.
If I know a message is fradulante, I'd avoid opening it entirely to
avoid to potential of loading any malicious resources.
Isn't MailMate excellent at blocking those?
Yes, but...
MailMate blocks loading of *remote* resources by default. It is possible
to embed dangerous items in the message itself. MailMate does not
automatically do anything dangerous on its own, but it does use Apple
frameworks to do display, so it is subject to problems outside of
Benny's control.
Benny is aware of the issues with display name fakery. At one point he
addressed the problem of senders putting fake addresses in the display
name by replacing the @ in the fake addresses with an emoji skull, to
emphasize that they aren't the real address. As various tools started
treating the tactic as spammy, spammers have largely abandoned putting
fake addresses in the display name, relying instead on people expecting
normalcy, not fraud.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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