anti-phishing mode shot down by mgmt

[Julian Field]

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I liked the hint about the drag-and-drop of the mail message. That one
hadn't occurred to me. Thanks!

Michael St. Laurent wrote:

>I'm not defending Outlook, I'm just trying to help out a fellow sysadmin.
>If the advice was unwelcome then I apologize.
>
>Jeff A. Earickson <> wrote:
>
>
>>Outlook is totally lame in this regard.  Cut and paste?  Gimme a
>>break. The boss is smart enough to reveal the headers and do the
>>cut-and-paste, but I want a complete unmangled copy of the message.
>>Pine (what I use) allows you to reveal the full mail headers and then
>>forward or bounce the whole message elsewhere in one piece.  With
>>Eudora, you open the message, click the "blah-blah" icon, and
>>forward.  Outlook: Yuck.
>>
>>Jeff Earickson
>>Colby College
>>
>>On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Michael St. Laurent wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:53:26 -0800
>>>From: Michael St. Laurent <mikes at HARTWELLCORP.COM>
>>>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
>>>
>>>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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