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#Mail: Show a popup indicating whether a clicked HTML link is identical to the link text

Open gtandersen opened this issue 7 months ago • 0 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Malicious links are a substantial part of phishing, where the apparent target of links in HTML messages are legitimate services while the actual link may point to a phishing website.

Describe the solution you'd like Show a popup when an link is clicked that points to a different URL than the one displayed.

Describe alternatives you've considered A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.

Additional context From a user via support:ticket CTM-733-83616:

"FairEmail has a pop up window whenever you click a link in an email. What caught my attention is that recently I clicked a link in an email on a serious topic and it warned me that a URL printed in the email text did not match the URL in the linked text.

While it turns out that the email in question wasn't phishing, they had slightly altered the link prepending something and added tracking data to the end of the URL string.

Would it be possible to add such a warning in a subtle way to Runbox 7, perhaps as an advanced option?"

gtandersen avatar May 26 '25 09:05 gtandersen