[MlMt] Feature request - sender addresses and simple anti-phishing

[Glenn Parker]

I just got a typical innocuous-seeming phishing email with a dubious 
link. You’ve all probably seen this type of message:

> When I ran into this the other day I though of you. So I just wanted 
> to share it with you http://…

Nope, not gonna click on that (elided) link!

The message used my wife’s name in the from field, but the actual 
email address was not hers, e.g. “From: Ms. Parker <bad at bot.net>”. A 
common phishing model targets names in a stolen address book using the 
name (but not the real email) of the address book’s owner, and I have 
received similar messages using other friends’ names. There’s not 
much my friends can do about it after their address book has been 
stolen.

Anyway, it’s not *that* hard to spot and avoid, but given the way 
MailMate displays email senders in the message summary, I pretty much 
have to open the message to verify. I would rather not even open such 
messages when possible.

A simple fix might be to show the full contents of the From header. Is 
there currently any way to show full email addresses in the message 
summary. All I can see is “Ms. Parker”, not the obviously bogus 
email address that is hiding behind the name. I couldn’t find anything 
about adjusting/expanding the display of email addresses in the 
documentation.

A more sophisticated would be to highlight senders that are already in 
my address book (or, equivalently, to flag “unknown” senders).

Is there any access to the list of addresses from the “Mark as Not 
Junk” button on messages with external image links?

Glenn P. Parker
glenn.parker at comcast.net
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