anti-phishing mode shot down by mgmt (Users and Outlook)

[Pentland G.]

Oh we get that all the time!

We tell them to use our Webmail (based on horde's imp) to "bounce" the
message.  perhaps you could set that up for the same purpose?

Julian Field wrote:
> 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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