Feature Request: Phishing

[Julian Field]

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Don't all rush at once now.... :-)

Julian Field wrote:

> How about this? Anyone want to test it for me please? I'll put out a new
> beta if you want it.
>
> There is now a new configuration option:
>
> # There are some companies, such as banks, that insist on sending out
> # email messages with links in them that are caught by the "Find Phishing
> # Fraud" test described above.
> # This is the name of a file which contains a list of link destinations
> # which should be ignored in the test. This may, for example, contain
> # the known websites of some banks.
> # See the file itself for more information.
> # This can only be the name of the file containing the list, it *cannot*
> # be the filename of a ruleset.
> Phishing Safe Sites File = %etc-dir%/phishing.safe.sites.conf
>
> The contents of the example file is this:
>
> #
> # This file contains the list of all the sites which can be safely
> # ignored in the "phishing fraud" checks.
> # The entries here are 1 per line, and are the full hostnames of
> # the *real* destinations of links which would be caught by the checks.
> # So if you had HTML that looked like this:
> #
> #     Please tell us at <a href="http://email.bank.com/">Bank.com</a>
> #
> # then you should add
> #     email.bank.com
> # to this file.
> #
> # Note: Do not add any form of wildcard, regular expression or anything
> #       other than a fully qualified hostname to this file. It won't
> work.
>
> www.example.com


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