how to write an anti-phishing ruleset (and test?)

[Julian Field]

On 17/11/04 4:51 pm, "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at COLBY.EDU> wrote:

> Gang,
>
> Our alumni office uses one of these click-thru counter services for
> the alumni newsletter.  They sent out their monthly newsletter a
> couple of days ago and all of their URLs got marked as phishing attempts
> by MailScanner.  They were peeved at me.  Now I need to write a
> ruleset to exempt the click-thru service and then be able to test it.
> A sample bit of URL code is:
>
> <p>See more at <a
> href="http://www.xyz.com/links/link.cgi?31889|363543|CLY-20041117090021">http:
> //www.colby.edu/eag</a>.</p>
>
> If I email myself this snippet, I can't get MailScanner to bark like it
> did for the real message (which came from xyz.com).  Why?  How to test
> a ruleset?
>
> What would a sample anti-phishing ruleset look like?  Something like:
>
>     #---exempt from xyz.com->colby.edu from anti-phishing tests
>     From: xyz.com and To: colby.edu     no
>
>     #---everybody else gets tested
>     Default: yes
>
> An example in the etc/rules/EXAMPLES file would be nice.

It looks just like any other ruleset.

From: your-alumni at office.address no
FromOrTo: default yes

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