gbinghan[dev-blog]

This is just a self reminder. Gmail list out email timezone according to computer system clock. If the time displayed on your messages is wrong, your system clock may be set incorrectly. To check your system clock, do the following: Open your computer’s date and time settings. Verify that the appropriate month, day, and year are selected. Verify that your time zone is selected. If you changed your time zone, restart your browser. Source: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7992?hl=en

Got this spam mail that looks as if its from my other email account (Yahoo Mail). Further inspect on the header reveals that the mail is from hotmail_631448ecb4add0e [at] hotmail.com. And the mail server is actually from the IP 179.89.131.27. Why Hotmail SmartScreen not doing its job SmartScreen should have filtered the email content, based on EITHER one of the following criteria, that can be implemented by checking just the email header. 1. The email content is obviously spam content. Nuff said. 2. The sender is obviously from a "anonymous" email that pretends to be another email. 3. The IP (179.89.131.27) of the mail server is OBVIOUSLY hosted on a spam source. This can be easily detected by cross-check with one of the spam database out there. For example http://www.dnsbl.info/ . These are simple methods to provide minimal layers protection for Hotmail users.  (Notice I haven't even go into advanced SPAM fighting techniques like using  DMARC ) Takea...