Re: DMARC?

Ian Eiloart <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:27:59 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.discuss
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On 11 Aug 2012, at 20:54, Michael Deutschmann <[email protected]> wrote:

>  a phisher can freely lie in
> *the address shown to an unsuspicious end user* 

Actually, there's no such thing for many recipients. Outlook 2011 for OSX (and I think 2010 and earlier for PC), iOS Mail, Yahoo webmail and Hotmail webmail don't display sender email addresses by default. For those webmail clients, a mouseover can reveal the From: header address, but for Outlook and iOS Mail, it's really hard to find the address even when you know how.

For some large senders, that accounts for 70% of recipients:

http://litmus.com/blog/email-client-market-share-stats-infographic-june-2012/email-client-market-share-june-2012



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