Re: Forwarding a mail to action fraud that is potentially fraudulent

Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.evolution.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2022-09-15 at 06:59 +0100, Steve T via evolution-list wrote:
> From time to time I get EMails that appear to be scams or phishing
> mails. In the UK the police have set up 'Action
> Fraud' - a group that looks into EMail/text scams. The problem I have
> is that when I forward the dubious mail to action
> fraud's Email address, the mail fails to send and gets an error
> message telling me that it is potentially fraudulent!
> 
> Is that message from Evolution or from my mail provider, and if from
> Evolution, can I disable the scam check for an
> individual mail?

It's definitely not from Evolution. Evo never sends you messages on its
own. Furthermore, it doesn't have a "scam check" function. It does
enable external spam checkers such as SpamAssassin or Bogofilter, but
AFAIK neither of these sends auto-generated emails to the user.

poc
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