Identify Legit Emails from major companies
Email spam is so common these days that it has become part of our live to wade through spam each day to identify legit emails from unsolicited ones. It can be a challenge for the average user sometimes while IT-professionals and experienced users usually do not have difficulties identifying fake and legit emails.
I bet you have asked yourself the question numerous times if an email was legit or fake. I know that I did, and whenever that happened, I analyzed the email and its header information to come to a conclusion about it.
In the end, it boils down to confirming that an email is legit, or confirming that it is not.
The software Trend Micro eMail ID aids users under certain circumstances. The eMail Id tool is a browser add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox that supports several web mailers including Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail.
Email ID can identify incoming mails from supported companies so that you can tell for certain whether an email claiming to come from a supported business is real or fake. It displays a status icon whenever it has scanned an email which tells you if an email is legit or not.
You can move the mouse over the icon to display additional information about the status of the email, including sender and sending domain information, and whether authentication and identification tests have been passed.
Trend Micro eMail ID is an easy to use security tool that does not require configuration at all. It does have some limitations though. First, it only works with Firefox and Internet Explorer and only several webmailers plus Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0. Second it supports only some US companies at the moment.
If you are from Europe for instance you will not find this tool that useful because you normally do not receive that many emails from US companies.
Update: TrendMicro has moved the web page of the Email ID browser plugin. It can now be downloaded directly from the official TrendMicro website. Please note that the program has not been updated for a long time, and that it may no longer be compatible with the web browsers or email programs or providers that you are using.
Update 2: Email Id is no longer available. There does not seem to be a comparable solution at the time of writing.
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!