Thank you everyone for the answers. Now that I know the reason, I think
it is a great feature.
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On Sat Jan 30, 2021 at 05:10 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
On 30 Jan 2021, at 16:38, m...@rhp.tw wrote:
Sometimes I will receive an email that have the skull emoji (π) in
the **From** header. At first
On 30 Jan 2021, at 16:38, m...@rhp.tw wrote:
Sometimes I will receive an email that have the skull emoji (π) in
the **From** header. At first I thought this might be due to some
autocorrect/auto-substitution that is enabled on my computer (like
turning a smiley emoticon to an emoji), but tha
Hi,
Β Β Actually it's a MailMate feature:
```
Whenever the name part of an address header contains a @ then itβs
replaced with a skull (π). That should at least make the user aware
of simple attempts to spoof an address header.
```
Reference: https://blog.freron.com/2017/email-spoofing/
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This is MailMate helpfully showing you that what you are looking at is
not an email address with an '@' between the two parts, but that the
display name (i.e., where my email address says "Pete Resnick") happens
to have an '@' and might be mistaken for an email address, which might
be used in a
Sometimes I will receive an email that have the skull emoji (π) in
the **From** header. At first I thought this might be due to some
autocorrect/auto-substitution that is enabled on my computer (like
turning a smiley emoticon to an emoji), but that does not seem to be the
case. I also looked