www.mailscanner.eu not responding - was: Failed update_bad_phishing_sites

[Mark Sapiro]

On 06/07/2014 08:43 AM, Paul Welsh wrote:
> So since neither http://www.mailscanner.eu/1x1spacer.gif
> nor http://cdn.mailscanner.info/1x1spacer.gif are available then does
> anyone have the gif handy?  


You really don't need it. Mailscanner will change something that looks like

<img
src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/some_encoded_info/...;sz=1x1;ord=[1402020420606]?"
/>

and turn it into

<img src="http://www.mailscanner.eu/1x1spacer.gif" width="2" height="2"
alt="Web Bug from
http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/some_encoded_info/...;sz=1x1;ord=[1402020420606]?"
/>

At worst, when the user views the mail and
http://www.mailscanner.eu/1x1spacer.gif cannot be retrieved, the user
may see the alt=text, but in many cases, the user's MUA won't load
remote images by default and the user sees nothing.


> Apologies if I have missed something here.  By the way, my conf file
> points to the mailscanner.tv <http://mailscanner.tv> site which is also
> down.  In fact mailscanner.info <http://mailscanner.info> seems down
> currently, ie, pings but web site not up.


www.mailscanner.info, www.mailscanner.eu, www.mailscanner.tv and
jules.mailscanner.info are all the same machine, IP 78.153.201.155.

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