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

[Michael Elliott]

I suppose.  Although the email isn't a spam email...it's a genuine  
message.


On May 6, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Joe Sporleder wrote:
> 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
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