My companies website is flagged by your service if casing is incorrect.

Alex Neuman van der Hans alex at vidadigital.com.pa
Mon Feb 22 23:39:48 UTC 2016


Sounds like a "with www in the a href" and "without www in the sig" problem.

Example,

<a href="http://www.ilw.com/ <http://www.ilw.com/>">ILW.com <http://ilw.com/></a>

Still, using caps for domain names isn't kosher.

> On Feb 22, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> On 02/22/2016 02:21 PM, Alix Etienne wrote:
>> My email signature has a link to our webpage http://ilw.com/. some
>> people in my companies office use the capital ILW.com in their signature
>> instead of the lowercase ilw.com <http://ilw.com>. because both versions
>> point to http://ilw.com/ , mailscanner gives a phishing warning to
>> colleagues with the uppercase version who happen to send an email to any
>> server which uses mailscanner. I just wanted to know if this
>> case-sensitive treatment of urls is intended behavior of your
>> mailscanner service or if it was a bug.
> 
> 
> It would be a bug, but I am unable to duplicate it in current MailScanner.
> 
> 
> I have tried
> 
> <a href="http://ilw.com/">ilw.com</a>
> <a href="http://ilw.com/">ILW.com</a>
> <a href="http://ILW.com/">ILW.com</a>
> <a href="http://ILW.com/">ilw.com</a>
> 
> And none of these is disarmed by MailScanner.
> 
> What exactly are the domains in the "MailScanner has detected a possible
> fraud attempt from "example.net" claiming to be http://example.com/"
> message from MailScanner
> 
>> 
>> ilw.com <http://ilw.com>
>> aetienne at ilw.com <mailto:aetienne at ilw.com>...
> 
> 
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