Phishing is not working

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jul 18 18:46:12 IST 2005


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That's interesting, I have never heard of this before. Do you have 
Dangerous Content Scanning = yes? Have you tried manually feeding it a 
message with an obvious phish in it?

Michael Baird wrote:

>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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