Re: e-mail security.

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On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 09:59 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 11:05 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 12/2/18 10:46 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > I'll be happy to send you an HTML message with a link whose
> > > destination URL seems to be
> > > https://www.whitehouse.gov, but once clicked you'll wind up on 
> > > https://pornhub.com
> > 
> > FWIW, with T-Bird it is easy to recognize this deception.  To see
> > if what is displayed in
> > the message is different than where you will be sent you just need
> > to hover your cursor
> > over the link.  The actual link will be displayed in the lower left
> > next to the "online"
> > indicator.
> 
> AFAIK most MUAs do that (at least those I've seen), as well as most
> browsers.
> 
> poc
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I'm still using evolution in F28 and it doesn't do that.  If I am
interested, I copy the link location and paste it into a new email. 
Generally I'm not interested, so it is not too troubling.  but it would
be nice if the hover function worked in evolution too.
Les
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