Wierd... in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19612669 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:38:03 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:38:03 EDT Re: Wierd... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19613547 en102 : Possibly oversight on Microsoft's part.
Unfortunately, it will cause many messages to be rejected as spam, because the header isn't legit.
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Along these lines... today I got one of the newsletters from Microsoft in the email that I'm subscribed to. At the time I was test driving Eeye's Blink software. Lo and behold it popped up and said it had protected me from identity theft.

It told me that the address the email showed to be coming from was a bogus one-thing-or-another but the real address was Microsoft's.
I get those MS newsletters too. Here is why Eeye is flagging it:
The msg ID in the headers has an entry like this:
Message-ID:
which implies that the msg came from a domain called phx.gbl. There is, of course no such internet domain name.
The from field has this:
Microsoft@newsletters.microsoft.com

Since the domains don't match Eeye flags it as potentially bogus.

So why is Microsoft doing this? And it is coming from Microsoft.

See a brief discussion here:
»artific.com/articles/2005/12/27/···cally_u/
and look for the parts that discuss phx.gbl.

For more do a google search on phx.gbl:
»www.google.com/search?num=100&hl···G=Search

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19613137 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:03:59 EDT Wierd... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19612669 Mercurybird : Along these lines... today I got one of the newsletters from Microsoft in the email that I'm subscribed to. At the time I was test driving Eeye's Blink software. Lo and behold it popped up and said it had protected me from identity theft.

It told me that the address the email showed to be coming from was a bogus one-thing-or-another but the real address was Microsoft's.

Now if it had told me it was the other way around I would have believed it. Figure that one out... How is security software going to figure out stuff like that, in a way that people can make sense of it? :)
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