[DC LoCo] Annoying Gmail banner

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 30 June 2011 15:36, Ted Smith <teddks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 13:24 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> It looks like Google changed the way Gmail works this week. Now
>> several of the emails I'm receiving from Gmail senders get an annoying
>> message saying that the message may not have been sent by the person
>> who sent it. See the attached screenshot. Kevin's library email had
>> the same warning. The warning also appears on old messages that didn't
>> have the warning until this week.
>>
>> The learn more link points to:
>>
>> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=185812
>>
>> Perhaps it's because individuals are using apps like Evolution,
>> Thunderbird, or Kmail instead of sending directly through Gmail's
>> website.
>>
>> Jeremy Bicha
>
> The link makes it look like anything sent by a mailing list (that wasn't
> a google group, presumably) would be flagged as potential phishing.
>
> Do private emails from the same people cause it?

Ted, I think that's it. It looks like every Gmail user that posts to a
mailing list gets the warning banner attached to their post when
viewed in Gmail. Which is a huge problem.

Jeremy