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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