MS Outlook "outbind" phishing detection

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 28 09:12:55 IST 2006


I have written a tiny patch to solve this problem.

Please apply the patch to your Message.pm file (in /usr/lib/ 
MailScanner/MailScanner) and let me know how you get on.

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Beta testers ---- Please can you thoroughly test this patch. Thanks  
folks!
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On 28 Jun 2006, at 08:37, Julian Field wrote:

> It already removed outbind://<digits>/.....
>
> Please can you give me an exact example of the URL that is the  
> problem, preferably a real example.
>
> On 28 Jun 2006, at 00:04, Andy Norris wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried my hardest to find the answer on my own...
>>
>> I have a customer who sent me a message a bit ago unhappy that  
>> their outbound mail to a customer of theirs had the warning  
>> phishing message at the bottom of their email because Outlook put  
>> in "outbind://....".
>>
>> What to do? Is there a way to tweak the phishing rules to allow  
>> any url that starts with "outbind://"?
>>
>> Running MailScanner v 4.54.6-1 and SendMail v 8.12.11.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>>
>> Andy Norris
>>
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> Julian Field
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>
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