To foil phishing, outlook can compare the text of a link in an em.

[Guest]

I receive phishing scams several times a month. Just by hovering over the
link in the email (which might say PayPal.com or CitiBank.com), I can see
that it is going to another location. I should think it would be easy for
Outlook to detect this type of situation by doing a lookup on the web site
(www.paypal.conm), comparing to the URL embedded in the link, and popping up
a warning message to the user.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Some antispam programs do just that - but it requires a lot more bandwidth.
If you don;t plan on opening the message anyway, it's unnecessary.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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