list filtering [was: Stripsearch ...]

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Thu Jun 23 05:15:22 CEST 2005


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:41:22 -0700
Chris Fortune wrote:

...[snip]...

> 
> > >> The SCAM-ADDRESS
> > > Check attachement [
> > > Annual_Privacy_and_Electronic_Fund_Transfer_Rights_Notice.eml ]
> >
> > I didn't get an attachment.
> 
> bogofilter mailing list seems to have removed it?  The href's were in this format http://paypal.com/?s8s980s8 , and the query
> strings were all different.  Only the last one was marked as SCAM-ADDRESS.

Right you are Chris.  The bogofilter list is configured to only allow
attachments of certain types, e.g. text/plain, files with .gz, .bz2, .txt 
extensions, etc.  This was done to prevent the transmission of virii using
spoofed addresses.

David



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