Phishing is not working

[Michael Baird]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:46 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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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?

Yes I did turn it on, and Yes I have manually sent phishing type emails
through it, I tried quite a bit, I have 4 inbound mx's w/MailScanner and
I've never had any phishing attempts caught via MailScanner, however
ClamAV does offer some protection against the phishing attempts.

Regards
Michael Baird

> 
> 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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