[MlMt] What's with the skulls?

[Eric Sharakan]

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 <davec2468 at 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?
> 
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> 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:
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> 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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