MailScanner being a little TOO fussy about case?

Wess Bechard mailscanner at eliquid.com
Mon Jan 30 20:21:09 GMT 2006


I have had this same problem too, and actually disabled phishing
detection when I noticed it.

Version 4.50-12 here.



On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 15:12 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> Hmmm...
> 
> 	Just noticed this in an E-Mail message:
> 
> MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.rglegal.com"
> claiming to bewww.RGLegal.com
> 
> 	Ok...  Other than needing a space after the "be" to be clearer, it's
> fussing that the case doesn't match in an FQDN?  That's a bit much.  It
> shouldn't be case sensitive there, should it?  While there MIGHT be a
> problem with the paths in some URL's being case sensitive, a domain name
> is case insensitive.  In fact, I quite often mix case on my own domain
> name - wittsend.com == WittsEnd.com == WittsEnd.Com - depending on
> context.
> 
> 	Mike


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