As a break from writing unit tests this morning I took a few minutes to go through my Mail.app junk folder, looking for false positives for mail delivered over the past six weeks. We don’t do any connection level rejection here, so any mail sent to me gets delivered somewhere. Anything that looks like malware gets dumped in one folder and never read, anything that scores a ridiculously high...
Mark Nottingham (@mnot) posted a good idea to twitter: Highlight e-mails that your MTA receives with TLS. Make sure to include your mail server’s name in the value (here to the left of what’s shown) Mail.app has client support for mail routing rules. Out of the box all they’re configured to do is highlight mail from Apple, but Mark is adding a rule to passively...
Intro was the LinkedIn product that created an email proxy where all email users sent went through LinkedIn servers. This week LinkedIn announced it is discontinuing the product. They promise to find new ways to worm their way into the inbox, but intercepting and modifying user mail doesn’t seem to have been a successful business model.
Your entire work life is in your work mail client. All the people you communicate with – co-workers, friends, family, vendors, customers, colleagues. Every email you send. Every email you receive. Any files you attach or receive. If someone can compromise your mail client, they can see all that. They can save copies of all your emails, data-mine them and use them for whatever purpose they...
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