Like mailscanner does then :-)

On Wednesday, 12 October 2011, Christian Grunfeld <
christian.grunf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an idea that I want to discuss with users and developers.
>
> Many phishing mails exploit the bad knowledge of the difference
> between real url and link anchor text by simple users. So they show
> atractive link text that points to hiden, unrecognized and evil urls.
> eg: exe files hiden by photo names, etc.
>
> My idea is to have a rewrite engine in spamassassin that can rewrite
> real url in place of the link anchor text or at least to write it near
> the anchor text without removing it. In that way people can check if
> both agree or if the url is known or unknown. It would be another step
> before the "inevitable click" :p
>
> The link functionality is not broken in any case (good or evil link)
> so genuine links can be followed and evil links can be warned !
>
> In sumary...replace text between <a> and </a> by the href or add the
> href next to the text with an ascii arrow (-->) or something like
> that.
>
> Cheers !
>

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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

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