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

[Leif Neland]

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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>
>
What is the problem? It is a phishing attempt, and MailScanner is detecting 
it,

> 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?

Are you whitelisting yourself?

Leif¨

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