On: The mysterious case of missing URLs and Google's A...

[gowld]

Hiding email addresses is really annoying, and a security hole because email users can lie about their name.

Look at the problem with the telephone system where scammers can spoof caller ID.

[kyle-rb → gowld]

People can already spoof email addresses pretty easily though.

[skybrian → kyle-rb]

You can do it, but with SPIF and DKIM checking, it might be hard to avoid detection, at least for some domains. How good is Gmail at detecting this?

[Boulth → skybrian]

Good if you set up DMARC. Quarantine setting guarantee that fake email goes to spam. Reject setting drops the fake email altogether.

[skybrian → gowld]

Yes, it's very plausable, but I wonder why I haven't heard about more email scams being attributed to Gmail's UI?