Re: [MlMt] Skull πŸ’€ emoji in the From header

2021-01-30 Thread mlmt
Thank you everyone for the answers. Now that I know the reason, I think it is a great feature. Β  Β  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 (πŸ’€) in the **From** header. At first

Re: [MlMt] Skull πŸ’€ emoji in the From header

2021-01-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 30 Jan 2021, at 16:38, m...@rhp.tw wrote: Sometimes I will receive an email that have the skull emoji (πŸ’€) 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

Re: [MlMt] Skull πŸ’€ emoji in the From header

2021-01-30 Thread Guillaume Barrette
Hi, Β Β Actually it's a MailMate feature: ``` Whenever the name part of an address header contains a @ then it’s replaced with a skull (πŸ’€). That should at least make the user aware of simple attempts to spoof an address header. ``` Reference: https://blog.freron.com/2017/email-spoofing/ -- Gu

Re: [MlMt] Skull πŸ’€ emoji in the From header

2021-01-30 Thread Pete Resnick
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

[MlMt] Skull πŸ’€ emoji in the From header

2021-01-30 Thread mlmt
Sometimes I will receive an email that have the skull emoji (πŸ’€) 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