M.S. 4.84.5 Question

[Sampson, Aaron]

Thanks Ken, that is I guess the answer I was really looking for is just clarification that using that would do what I wanted it to do and not mess anything else up.  Appreciate you responding so quickly on this issue.

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken A
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:05 PM
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No need to restate your question, just to read the answer again. :-) That is exactly what URI based blacklists do.
Ken

On 3/20/2012 10:39 AM, Sampson, Aaron wrote:
> I am currently using spam assassin with mail scanner, and clam D.  
> Which has been doing a great job so far now that I have worked some of 
> the bugs out in our setup.  Just the owner of our company HATES spam 
> lol and just trying to see if there is a way to tweak the system to 
> get it to catch a little more.  That being said the blacklist in 
> spam(whatever) will black list the url that the email is coming from 
> which is not what I want in this case but to be able to scan the 
> e-mail itself and verify that any links in the email are valid and 
> safe.  I know that the system in its current config will scan for 
> links that go to numeric ip addresses.  So maybe restating my question 
> to will mail scanner (or spam assassin) scan the links that go to 
> bogus sites and flag them as possible phishing sites even If the link 
> goes to a word address such as bad_site.com instead of a numeric 
> address
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken A
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:12 AM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: M.S. 4.84.5 Question
>
> Those are usually caught by the URI based blacklists in SpamAssassin, but you can also use a milter.
> Good lists are provided by Spamhaus, URIBL and SURBL.
> See http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/Spamhaus%20DBL
>
> Ken
>
> On 3/20/2012 8:35 AM, Sampson, Aaron wrote:
>> Sorry if I was not clear enough.
>>
>> There is a link embedded in these emails says "Visit your inbox now" from a valid business social site (linked IN).  But when you look at the link it would take you to "bogus_site.com"  But again the problem is how do I or Can I scan these messages for these embedded links to bogus sites.
>>
>> I'm still fairly new but the questions is more of a general is it possible and have you done it question.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken 
>> A
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:32 PM
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>> Subject: Re: M.S. 4.84.5 Question
>>
>>
>> You mean like<a href=paaaypalz.info>paypal</a>   or some other kind of bogosity? Different spam is caught in different ways, so you need to be specific in your question.
>> Ken
>>
>> On 3/19/2012 3:31 PM, Sampson, Aaron wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I am runnning MailScanner 4.84.5 on Centos 6.2 and my question is we 
>>> have gotten e-mails from a valid business network site that 
>>> contained a bogus link, so is there a way that you can have 
>>> MailScanner check the URL to ensure that it is valid.  I know it 
>>> will check to see if the link is a numeric IP address but these are 
>>> coming across as a name.  Is there some thing in MailScanner.conf 
>>> that I can change to have it check these e-mails?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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