anti-phishing mode shot down by mgmt

[Julian Field]

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Not as simple as having a "Redirect" button though. Most users appear to
be incapable of doing this in Outlook.

Michael St. Laurent wrote:

>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."
>>>>
>>>>

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