Phishing domain?

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From: "Tim Slattery" <[email protected]>

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| Not a thing, I use it on my Vista system and my wife's XP SP2 system.
| Very full featured, including a Bayesian SPAM filter. And the price is
| definitely right: free!
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| www.pmail.com
|

Yes, it is free. However we all suggest a donation to David Harris, New Zealand. David was
going to drop the software for a lack of $$. The outcry was tremendous and David decided to
maintain it. To keep this software maintained and updated, a donation is suggested.

Two newsgroups exist that are specifically targeted at Pegasus Mail - they are
comp.mail.pegasus-mail.misc and comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows.
 
It happened to me at least three times. I
fished out of my junk mail older ostensibly junk emails that came from
very important but unusual sources.
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So basically what you are saying is that MS Mail can't be trusted because
it deletes inportant non-spam mail.

Or is it your hypocritical streak showing again.....

Don't use any third party e-mail application because it may delete e-mails
it shouldn't, so stick with MS Mail because it will delete messages it
shouldn't have also, but that's OK since it's from MS.
 
From: "DanS" <[email protected]>

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| So basically what you are saying is that MS Mail can't be trusted because
| it deletes inportant non-spam mail.
|
| Or is it your hypocritical streak showing again.....
|
| Don't use any third party e-mail application because it may delete e-mails
| it shouldn't, so stick with MS Mail because it will delete messages it
| shouldn't have also, but that's OK since it's from MS.
|

Quite a paradox :-)
 
From: "DanS" <[email protected]>

| |
|
| So basically what you are saying is that MS Mail can't be trusted
| because it deletes inportant non-spam mail.
|
| Or is it your hypocritical streak showing again.....
|
| Don't use any third party e-mail application because it may delete
| e-mails it shouldn't, so stick with MS Mail because it will delete
| messages it shouldn't have also, but that's OK since it's from MS.
|

Quite a paradox :-)
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Yes it is, for some. But for others, well, *some* people can think for
themselves.

Al-Alex on the other hand.......well.......I don't think I need to say
anything. His own words speak loudly enough.
 
DanS said:
Yes it is, for some. But for others, well, *some* people can think for
themselves.

Al-Alex on the other hand.......well.......I don't think I need to say
anything. His own words speak loudly enough.
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Still interested to know if anyone knows the answer to my question.
What constitutes a phishing threat in WM?
To my knowledge, phishing is the act of pretending to represent a domain in
the hope that the user will visit a different domain and give their personal
details.
This email did not in any way, shape or form.
It wasn't marked as spam/junk/virus. It clearly stated that the email was a
potential phishing threat and that it was blocking it.
This happens every time this person sends me a mail (but never when sent to
my work (Outlook) address. He is quite concerned why this would happen.
Neither of us can figure why.
 
From: "Jay" <[email protected]>


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| Still interested to know if anyone knows the answer to my question.
| What constitutes a phishing threat in WM?
| To my knowledge, phishing is the act of pretending to represent a domain in
| the hope that the user will visit a different domain and give their personal
| details.
| This email did not in any way, shape or form.
| It wasn't marked as spam/junk/virus. It clearly stated that the email was a
| potential phishing threat and that it was blocking it.
| This happens every time this person sends me a mail (but never when sent to
| my work (Outlook) address. He is quite concerned why this would happen.
| Neither of us can figure why.

Often it is a URL string that is used to label an actual URL.

For example. The label of the URL is; http://www.citibank.com but the actual URL is http://www.citibank.254.com.
Software may then identify this as phishing.

This is one of the many reasons corporations are now pushing Group Policies disabling Rich
Text Formatting/HTML email in MS Outlook in conjunction with their Exchange Server and only
allowing clear text email.
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Jay" <[email protected]>


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| Still interested to know if anyone knows the answer to my question.
| What constitutes a phishing threat in WM?
| To my knowledge, phishing is the act of pretending to represent a domain
in
| the hope that the user will visit a different domain and give their
personal
| details.
| This email did not in any way, shape or form.
| It wasn't marked as spam/junk/virus. It clearly stated that the email
was a
| potential phishing threat and that it was blocking it.
| This happens every time this person sends me a mail (but never when sent
to
| my work (Outlook) address. He is quite concerned why this would happen.
| Neither of us can figure why.

Often it is a URL string that is used to label an actual URL.

For example. The label of the URL is; http://www.citibank.com but the
actual URL is http://www.citibank.254.com.
Software may then identify this as phishing.

This is one of the many reasons corporations are now pushing Group
Policies disabling Rich
Text Formatting/HTML email in MS Outlook in conjunction with their
Exchange Server and only
allowing clear text email.
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Thanks David, that's exactly what I meant when I said one domain pretending
to be another.
As in your example citibank is a host name in the domain 254.com.
My email is set to read text so I see both the label and the actual URL and
both are identical. I look at the headers and they are all kosher too.
Perhaps their domain got on some sort of phishing blacklist somewhere?
 
From: "Jay" <[email protected]>


| Thanks David, that's exactly what I meant when I said one domain pretending
| to be another.
| As in your example citibank is a host name in the domain 254.com.
| My email is set to read text so I see both the label and the actual URL and
| both are identical. I look at the headers and they are all kosher too.
| Perhaps their domain got on some sort of phishing blacklist somewhere?

Perhaps. I really don't know.
 
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