custom anti-phishing message?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:44:55 +0000
> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: custom anti-phishing message?
>
> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>> Julian,
>>
>> I'll just throw this out, feel free to say no...  The pointy-haired boss
>> has wanted to have our own custom anti-phishing warning, instead of the
>> MailScanner default (he wanted a whole paragraph there with a URL to our
>> own site explaining phishing etc, way too long -- I told him no, it was
>> hardwired).  But the pointy-haired boss DID thing that the warning was
>> cool,
>> instead of telling me to turn the feature off.
>>
>> Others want the thing shorter, eg "Fraud attempt from abc.com as
>> xyz.com".
>> Aaaargh.
>
> See languages.conf. It is already there:
> PossibleFraudStart = <font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a
> possible fraud attempt from
> PossibleFraudEnd = claiming to be </b></font>
>
>> And I sure wish the msgid was in the phishing syslog, grumble, grumble.
>> Maybe in the next design of this feature?
>
> Done. See the attached Message.pm.
>
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