webbug replacement ruleset?

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at colby.edu
Wed May 10 14:24:55 IST 2006


Julian,

I need to turn off this web bug replacement option because the howls
are growing louder and more numerous.  How to operate like before
4.53.8?  Just set

Web Bug Replacement =

ie, nothing after the equals?

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 08:37:39 +0100
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: webbug replacement ruleset?
> 
> On 9 May 2006, at 21:27, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>> Julian,
>> 
>> I got a howl from a user that her mailings from savedsearches at ebay.com
>> now comes sans pictures of the items that she is shopping for.  I
>> suspect the new Web Bug Replacement feature.  I would like to do a
>> ruleset here.  Would this work?
>> 
>> #---don't do webbug replacement on selected sites
>> From:   savedsearches at ebay.com  no
>> #
>> #---do replacement on everything else
>> FromorTo:   default 
>> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif
>
> No, you would want FromorTo: Default yes
> The option takes either yes or no values, so that's what the ruleset must 
> feed it.
>
> Unless Ebay have screwed up their image size attributes in the img tag, 
> MailScanner shouldn't be clobbering these images.
>
> Is anyone else receiving reports of this problem?
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