Internet Explorer URL Display problem

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Dec 13 10:26:58 GMT 2003


At 01:08 13/12/2003, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>>I still think I would rather have MailScanner do the checking for this
>>>so we can notify the recipient properly, rather than just marking
>>>the message as high spam and/or deleting the message altogether. Perhaps
>>>we could even have MailScanner remove the link code altogether but still
>>>deliver the rest of the message.
>for info, SA (I'm running 2.61 - not sure about previous) already has a
>rule to catch these:
>
>in 20_uri_test.cf:
>
># Have gotten FPs off this, and whitespace can't be in the host, so...
># %    Visit my homepage: http://i.like.foo.com %
>uri HTTP_ESCAPED_HOST
>/^https?\:\/\/[^\/\s]*%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]/
>describe HTTP_ESCAPED_HOST      Uses %-escapes inside a URL's hostname
>
>So the score could just be ramped up spam.assassin.prefs.conf so it hits
>above high spam actions or (I'm presuming ) that test included in MCP
>config.
>
>Julian, as an aside could I (say)
>
>score HTTP_ESCAPED_HOST  100
>
>simply be added to mcp.spam.assassin.prefs.conf  or would the rule also
>have to be added to a .cf file in the MCP directory?

You need to add it to a .cf file in the MCP directory. MCP starts off with
no rules at all.
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