[X4U] random addressees showing up as "person"@mac.com

[Joe Sporleder]

On May 6, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> No idea. Anybody know how that's set in outlook?
>
> Plus these are fresh emails as far as I can see. Not replies to my  
> mails. Also I done think that would explain why SOME of the other  
> recipients are also listed with .Mac addresses.
>
> Its a puzzler
>
> _________________________
> Sent from my phone--so replies might be short.
>
> On May 5, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Ronald Steinke <ronsteinke at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible that she has set her preferences in her mail  
>> program to use the mail server of the last message that she  
>> received as the mail server to send her message from?
>>
>> Sent via iPhone
>>
>> On May 5, 2008, at 7:42, Michael Elliott <michaelelliott at mac.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a strange question and was hoping that someone might  
>>> know the answer.
>>>
>>> I've got a person that emails me and about 20 others.  Let's call  
>>> her Jane Smith.  Whenever she does, her "from:" email is listed  
>>> as "Jane Smith"@mac.com.  Including the quotations.  I know that  
>>> she is NOT using .mac as her email.  About 3-4 of her addressees  
>>> are also listed as "John Smith"@mac.com and "Dr. Jones"@mac.com.   
>>> Other addressees on both the internal domain and domains like  
>>> flash.net and yahoo.com are all listed normally.
>>>
>>> I'm sure she's using Outlook.
>>>
>>> Any ideas as to why her email address and those few others are  
>>> shown that way?
>>>
>>> Thanks

For a while, there was spam going around where this particular  
nomenclature was a popular method for hiding the real email address.  
I remember getting a bunch of those. Is there a chance a virus or  
malware might be involved rather than just a errant setting in the  
person's email reader?

Joe