Feature Request: Phishing

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jan 19 17:12:46 GMT 2005


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It should ignore mailto: links (and does on my test systems).
I guess I could also ignore <a href="#thing"> links in the messages. Is
that what you meant?

Wietse Muizelaar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This one works good on our site. But, I've got additional
> questions/feature-requests ;))
> The mailing why I would like to use the 'phishing whitelist'-thing, also
> contains a mailto-link, which is detected as 'phishing'. Also the <a
> name= >
> tag, and <a href=#-tags are considered as phishing. Is it possible to
> think
> of a way to ' whitelist' this behaviour also? Or, since it's a link to
> another part of the mail, should it be considered as phishing?
>
> Thanks for the thought; and of course for your great support!
>
> Regards,
> Wietse
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:44 PM,
> Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
>> It's already posted on the website, version 4.38.3.
>> Let us know if you have any problems.
>>
>> Bart E. Hawley Sr. wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am willing to test it on my site. I have a couple of mailing lists
>>> that keep getting tagged for phishing, but I know they are legit
>>> links through a click-through type setup.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I did :)
>>>
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