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Grayson Peddie
Hi. I have a couple of suggestions and a question:
I would like to show the full headers (like the one in Internet Headers
located in View->Options). When I take a look at an important e-mail which
gives me attention, I have to make sure who they say they are. While it's
okay to have the Internet Headers locate inside the Options dialog box
(View->Options when viewing e-mail), I wanted to save some clicks and time.
There, I can easily spot forged e-mail headers.
My second suggestion is, will it be possible to embed an IP address (in
header) as a link that takes me to do a WHOIS lookup? This is just for
phishing-reporting purposes only, and should only be embeded when it's been
delivered to Junk Mail folder. Why I need to do a WHOIS lookup on an IP
address who sent the phishing mail to me? Because I wanted to report a
phishing scam to (e-mail address removed) (see http://wiki.castlecops.com/PIRT for
more information about PIRT).
Now...one thing that I'd like to mention is, if you look below the web page
in http://www.geektools.com/whois.php, there's an image with a random text in
it for combating the abuse of WHOIS lookup system. I really think that this
security measure should be put in to it when doing a WHOIS lookup in a
user-clicked IP address.
And if the WHOIS lookup system can be implemented into Outlook, then would
it be possible to perform certain scripts via VBA? Like if I do the following:
1. Click the IP# link to do the WHOIS lookup.
2. Copy the contents of the result from the WHOIS server.
3. Click the "forward to" button.
4. Paste the contents from the WHOIS' result.
5. Send it to (e-mail address removed).
If the WHOIS-lookup feature can't be implemented, it's okay. I just thought
about some time-saving features that I'd like Microsoft Office Team to
implement into Outlook and to help speed up the reporting of phishing scam to
anti-phishing agencies like PIRT (Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination
Squad).
I'm very Internet-savvy, and I can never be fooled into thinking that the
e-mail that I got (claiming to be from eBay although it isn't) is
legitemate/genium. So going through the e-mail header (that I wanted the
headers to be showing below the From/To/Subject) is my first priority and my
first step before I view the contents of an e-mail message.
Thank you for taking my time on reading my suggestions provided in here and
I will look forward to hear from you and to know whether you will implement
the security suggestions into Outlook sometime soon (my suggestion should
also be implemented into Outlook Express, if it's possible, however I don't
use Outlook Express).
Regards,
-Grayson Peddie
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I would like to show the full headers (like the one in Internet Headers
located in View->Options). When I take a look at an important e-mail which
gives me attention, I have to make sure who they say they are. While it's
okay to have the Internet Headers locate inside the Options dialog box
(View->Options when viewing e-mail), I wanted to save some clicks and time.
There, I can easily spot forged e-mail headers.
My second suggestion is, will it be possible to embed an IP address (in
header) as a link that takes me to do a WHOIS lookup? This is just for
phishing-reporting purposes only, and should only be embeded when it's been
delivered to Junk Mail folder. Why I need to do a WHOIS lookup on an IP
address who sent the phishing mail to me? Because I wanted to report a
phishing scam to (e-mail address removed) (see http://wiki.castlecops.com/PIRT for
more information about PIRT).
Now...one thing that I'd like to mention is, if you look below the web page
in http://www.geektools.com/whois.php, there's an image with a random text in
it for combating the abuse of WHOIS lookup system. I really think that this
security measure should be put in to it when doing a WHOIS lookup in a
user-clicked IP address.
And if the WHOIS lookup system can be implemented into Outlook, then would
it be possible to perform certain scripts via VBA? Like if I do the following:
1. Click the IP# link to do the WHOIS lookup.
2. Copy the contents of the result from the WHOIS server.
3. Click the "forward to" button.
4. Paste the contents from the WHOIS' result.
5. Send it to (e-mail address removed).
If the WHOIS-lookup feature can't be implemented, it's okay. I just thought
about some time-saving features that I'd like Microsoft Office Team to
implement into Outlook and to help speed up the reporting of phishing scam to
anti-phishing agencies like PIRT (Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination
Squad).
I'm very Internet-savvy, and I can never be fooled into thinking that the
e-mail that I got (claiming to be from eBay although it isn't) is
legitemate/genium. So going through the e-mail header (that I wanted the
headers to be showing below the From/To/Subject) is my first priority and my
first step before I view the contents of an e-mail message.
Thank you for taking my time on reading my suggestions provided in here and
I will look forward to hear from you and to know whether you will implement
the security suggestions into Outlook sometime soon (my suggestion should
also be implemented into Outlook Express, if it's possible, however I don't
use Outlook Express).
Regards,
-Grayson Peddie
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...04acb4625&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general