http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3888
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-07 17:36 ------- I may be beating a dead horse, but just to make it clear to anyone who finds this while searching for similar things in the future: The only way to detect this is to use the URL to fetch the page from the browser to see if it has a refresh header. That would let spammers insert web bugs which SpamAssassin would obligingly trigger, i.e., URL's of the form http://example.com/your_email_address_encoded_here... That would also let spammers cause SpamAssassin to waste arbitrary amounts of time and bandwidth following URLs they hide in spam. We already have a way of detecting "bad" URLs without following them. If you report your confirmed spam to SpamCop, the URLs in the spam end up in a database that is one of the sources for some of the URIDNSBL blacklists that SpamAssassin can use. If a URL can't be handled that way, then c'est la vie. And that's why any proposal that requires following a URL should be a WONTFIX. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
