Phishing is not working

Michael Baird mike at TC3NET.COM
Mon Jul 18 18:36:02 IST 2005


Same here, I've never been able to get the phishing detection in
mailscanner to work, luckily my virus scanners do pick up many of the
attacks. If you figure out, be kind enough to post the fix. 

Regards
Michael Baird

> Hi,
> 
> We are running MailScanner 4.43.8-1 and I turned the phishing feature 
> on. My phishing.safe.sites.conf file is the default.  we receive tens of 
> thousands messages daily and we've been running this version for a few 
> days. We have not seen any message caught by the feature. I received a 
> phishing message myself. I tried to attach it to the message such that I 
> can explain my situation better. However, Julian's JISCmail mailer does 
> not like it. Apparently, MailScanner is able to identify the phishing 
> thing. I wonder if there is anything wrong in my configuration?
> 
> Find Phishing Fraud = yes
> Also Find Numeric Phishing = yes
> Phishing Safe Sites File = %etc-dir%/phishing.safe.sites.conf
> 
> Thanks
> Kai Wang
> University of Calgary
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