Environment
Novell GroupWise 2012
Novell GroupWise 8
Novell GroupWise 8
Situation
When modifying the displayed name (from name) in the properties of
the account option, which is possible when working in caching mode
only, the receiver running GroupWise reads the displayed name only and
not the real sender name. The same is true when opening or printing
the email.
To see the real sender of the email the receiver needs to look at its properties.
The expected behavior is that also the real name is shown in parenthesis, just like when modifying the displayed name (from field) when composing a new email.
Due to this behavior a user could easily be able to impersonating other users and trying to get personal and sensible information (phishing).
To see the real sender of the email the receiver needs to look at its properties.
The expected behavior is that also the real name is shown in parenthesis, just like when modifying the displayed name (from field) when composing a new email.
Due to this behavior a user could easily be able to impersonating other users and trying to get personal and sensible information (phishing).
Resolution
The engineering is currently working to change this behavior for
GroupWise 2012 so that also the real name of sender is shown in
parenthesis.
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Status
Reported to EngineeringAdditional Information
This depends totally on the way the GroupWise client is designed
which in this case does not take in consideration the real name but
the displayed name of the sender in order to present information
about emails to the users. In fact, non-GroupWise Users will most
likely see the real sender name.