On 27/04/2018 17:53, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 27.04.18 06:51, Noel Butler wrote:
>
>> I suspect Nick is still using and referring to mailscanner (which is/was
>> written in perl), it has/had this ability, I (like a good few of the
>> names around here) used it back in the day as well, until it became
>> clear it was abandonware, and did not like certain newer versions of
>> perl causing exits after each scan, mind you, I did dump it for amavisd
>> back around 2008/9/10, that said I liked that function, and rarely
>> noticed any FP's, my memorys hazy, but IIRC, it disarmed the links,
>> rather than take any scoring action... I might be wrong though, like I
>> said, its been along time.
>
> I believe that the same arguments (need for hugt whitelist) could apply for
> mailscanner too.
I certainly never needed to whitelist anyone and we processed millions
of messages a day at that ISP
but as I said, it disarmed it, stopping you from clicking on it, not
marking it as spam or such, which might require more thought
> I have noticed discussion about this request/issue many times in this
> mailing list, still the same conclusions, so I wanted to point out to
> problems rather than telling the OP "go search list archives".
>
> Note that I don't like this kind of mismatches too and I would invite having
> such plugin in SA
>
> I would maybe even avoid initial whitelist to force organizations stop using
> such mismatched URLs (should be safe with not too high scores).
Thats the whole problem, idiotic companies who send links like that
deserve to get blocked/spam-binned, but everybody runs around creating
whitelists, so why woulld they fix their shit, they have no incentive to
when people whitelist them.
I've never cared who you are, a ma 'n pa op shop, a govt dept, or huge
corporate, like BP, or whoever, you dont get whitelisted by me, and my
users know that, they know not to bitch to us about it, but to the
senders, been my way for a very long time, works for me ;)
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Kind Regards,
Noel Butler
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