Same test only now I've composed in HTML format.
Same URL:
(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=sVkiPzVJL_iMgLLvSTjn_PVonwnx8h1jT871yRet-T4&s=TZGZbRrxKyrMRUQCxm4kUvNcS7tHO8hynCK27Kro7ig&e=)
P. Larry Nelson wrote on 7/24/18 1:40 PM:
I concur with the previous posts about ProofPoint.
The U of I campus implemented this several years ago.
I complained. Fell on deaf ears.
Implemented by our security folks. Rationale being that 99% of the campus
email users (i.e., using the campus Exchange server) are either too lazy
and/or too unaware of the dangers of blindly clicking on a URL in their emails.
However, U of I email with a URL in the message body shows the real URL (in
blue and underlined - unless the URL is hidden via the html "<a href="
construct), but when you move the mouse pointer over the URL, (at least in
Thunderbird) the bottom horizontal box of T-bird (I'm sure it has a more
official name) then shows the long obfuscated urldefense URL.
So, in our case, one can just copy/paste the URL in the message body to a
browser and NOT go thru ProofPoint.
The other aspect of the U of I's ProofPoint config is that it only affects
email composed in HTML format, and since I generally loathe doing that unless
absolutely necessary, I almost always compose in ASCII mode.
So, I suppose this might be a test of how Fermilab has implemented ProofPoint
as I will now include a rather well known URL here (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=sVkiPzVJL_iMgLLvSTjn_PVonwnx8h1jT871yRet-T4&s=TZGZbRrxKyrMRUQCxm4kUvNcS7tHO8hynCK27Kro7ig&e=)
and see how it arrives in your inbox.
:-)
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https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hep.physics.illinois.edu_home_lnelson_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=sVkiPzVJL_iMgLLvSTjn_PVonwnx8h1jT871yRet-T4&s=rK67tnoRg-LrGgKZGxwX7Y3ysQghBlXmTJkqZTTyxC8&e=
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