On 17.9.2010 16:11, Steve Freegard wrote: > Hi All, > > Recently I've been getting a bit of filter-bleed from a bunch of spams > injected via Hotmail/Yahoo that contain shortened URLs e.g. bit.ly/foo > that upon closer inspection would have been rejected with a high score > if the real URL had been used. > > To that end - it annoyed me enough to write a plug-in that decodes the > shortened URL using an HTTP HEAD request to extract the location header > sent by the shortening service and to put this into the list of > extracted URIs for other plug-ins to find (such as URIDNSBL). > > On the messages I tested it with - it raised the scores from <5 to >10 > based on URIDNSBL hits which is just what I wanted. > > Hopefully it will be useful to others; you can grab it from: > > http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.pm > http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.cf
It has a typo. describe URIBL_SHORT ... The rule name is wrong, should be SHORT_URIBL Didn't you --lint it? ;) -- You will not be elected to public office this year.
