phishkill: skip mailto stuff?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Dec 1 14:49:16 GMT 2004


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But this appears to be
<mailto:address> mailto:address
I don't currently look for < or > characters, I guess I could add that.
Then it would start mailto: and so be spotted.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
> Running 4.36.1 with version 1.126.2.172 of Message.pm.  I got a
> complaint about this:
>
>> If you are having problems, please email myself (Ronald.Aho at jenzabar.net
>> <<mailto:Ronald.Aho at jenzabar.net>MailScanner has detected a possible
>> fraud
>> attempt from "ronald.aho at jenzabar.net" claiming to
>> be<mailto:Ronald.Aho at jenzabar.net> mailto:Ronald.Aho at jenzabar.net>)
>> and Shirley
>> High (shirley.high at jenzabar.net
>> <<mailto:shirley.high at jenzabar.net>MailScanner
>> has detected a possible fraud attempt from
>> "shirley.high at jenzabar.net" claiming
>> to be<mailto:shirley.high at jenzabar.net>
>> mailto:shirley.high at jenzabar.net>)
>> directly and we will forward it to the appropriate people. We will
>> respond
>
>
> I thought that later versions of anti-phishing were supposed to ignore
> mailto URLs?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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