On 19-07-13 17:58:12, home user via users wrote:
I just received a message from [sender]@gmail.com but the last line in the message is a bluish line saying "Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android" I do know someone named [sender] but the from address is not what I have for that person, though the sender could have gotten a new e-mail address very recently. Also, the from address being a Google e-mail address seems to contradict the last line saying the message was sent from Yahoo Mail. Is this message probably genuine or probably a spoof?
If you can't tell from the content, it's usually spam. Look at the message header. (View Source is a good way, as it will be exact.) The first Received: line and any lines before it come from your email provider, who is mostly to be trusted, though anyone can make mistakes. If that line says the "from" is reasonable, look at the lines up to and inclucing the next Received: line and loop, otherwise stop, it's spam. You can also look at other header fields; it may be the sender did get a new email address but prefer replies to go to the old one -- but probably not. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
