mail recipient gets phishing warning from Mail on MacBook Pro but not iPod

This is probably related to your use of Rich Text Format, and perhaps an over aggressive filter. Take one of the messages you have sent him, in the Sent mailbox, open, click on Message in the menubar, choose Send Again, but before doing so, click on Format in the menubar, and choose Make Plain Text. Let us know how he receives that?

Ernie

Great! Could you send me a similar message with RTF to those you sent with RTF? I would like to see if by any chance your Sophos is placing any warning header in the message when you send. My address can be found by clicking on my name to the left, and looking in the bio line of the resulting Profile.

I don't trust Sophos, as I recently helped someone else, and we found that Sophos, without warning, was actually modifying attachment files he received, stripping away images and links.

Ernie

Thanks for the email sample, but it was in Plain Text, so not much learned. Did those you sent to your friend have other elements other than simple text?

Ernie

Thanks -- while Sophos, in one of the headers, is rating your message, I don't think that rating is problematic. The issue with the recipient probably was simply the RTF vs Plain Text. If you want to see the difference in more dramatic display, open each of the message with a double-click, then on View/Message and choose Raw Source. With them side by side, you can see the extra coding in the one with RTF.

Ernie