anti-phishing mode shot down by mgmt

[Michael St. Laurent]

In Outlook you can get the mail headers by right clicking on the message and
choosing "Options" from the context menu.  The headers will be in the
"Internet headers:" box.  Even though the box is greyed out they can use the
standard windows methods to copy and paste them.

Jeff A. Earickson <> wrote:
> The pointy-haired boss kept complaining about the NY Times emails.
> I added "From:   *@*.nytimes.com no" to my phishing ruleset, but he
> still complained (guess I didn't get the rule right).  To add insult
> to injury, this guy uses Outlook for his email reader so he can't even
> send me a complete email example with mail headers and everything.
> This from our head of ITS, and our official policy is "we don't
> support Outlook, use Eudora".   Arrgh.  I don't subscribe to the
> NY Times email service myself.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:27:22 +0000
>> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: anti-phishing mode shot down by mgmt
>>
>> Have they got any examples of it crying wolf? I agree it's not
>> perfect, but it can't be. Perhaps you should setup your own in-house
>> phishing scam to provide the service locally? :-)
>>
>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>
>>> Julian,
>>>
>>> Management has asked me to turn off anti-phishing, which I did
>>> when I upgraded to 4.36.4 this morning.  They had gotten annoyed
>>> by it and thought it cried wolf too much.  We are back to the
>>> Darwin mode of "a fool and his money are soon parted."
>>>
>>> Jeff Earickson
>>> Colby College
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