Clean up email with "phishing attempt warnings"

Chipper · 9 Jan 2011, 02:10 AM

Somebody just sent me a list of emails for a mailing list. Several of them look like this:

"John Doe" <FastMail.FM WARNING: URL text and host don't match, possible phishing attempt. URL disabled. Original URL='http://us.xxxx.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xxxx@xxxx.com'. Original text='yyyy@yyyy.com'.

Is there something that will automate cleaning? This would avoid two problems:
1) It's a lot of work to manually go through these to create the mailing list
2) There's the chance of error that I might miss somebody

Moderator: Real email address in URL link is now munged.

hadaso · 9 Jan 2011, 06:05 AM

Probably you can just disable "phishing protection". access the message, then re-enable phishing protection ("Options"/"Preferences" screen, "View" section). It's a pity we still do not have a way to undo it just for the message being read from within the message (like we are able to allow display of external images when they are disabled by default). the "phishing protection" thing has lots of false positives.

Another option may be just viewing the message in plain text mode. Then perhaps it can be copied to a text editor and the "find and replace" functionality of the text editor used to cleanup whatever's left and leave just a comma separated list of addresses.

BTW, you should edit your post and munge the link (the shown text is munged but not the url that still shows a real email address).

Chipper · 10 Jan 2011, 11:12 PM

Jikes -- thought I had replaced all fake info with real info. Thanks for noticing hadaso, and thanks for fixing, Sherry.

Don't like having to turn off phishing protection because I can see myself getting get distracted, go on to something else and forget to turn it back on. That would be my own fault, but if that's the only way to fix it, I guess that leaves me two options:
* Turn off and hope I don't forget to turn back on
* Deal with it and have to try to clean up

On this go around, somebody else was able to handle the address clean up.

hadaso · 11 Jan 2011, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chipper

... I can see myself getting get distracted, go on to something else and forget to turn it back on. ... that leaves me two options: ...

3rd option: 1st send yourself a reminder to turn phishing protection back on. Leave it unread. then do the rest. Delete the reminder only after you have turned it back on!

9 Jan 2011, 02:10 AM	#1
Chipper Master of the @ Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Greenbelt, MD (USA) Posts: 1,279	Clean up email with "phishing attempt warnings" Somebody just sent me a list of emails for a mailing list. Several of them look like this: "John Doe" <FastMail.FM WARNING: URL text and host don't match, possible phishing attempt. URL disabled. Original URL='http://us.xxxx.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xxxx@xxxx.com'. Original text='yyyy@yyyy.com'. Is there something that will automate cleaning? This would avoid two problems: 1) It's a lot of work to manually go through these to create the mailing list 2) There's the chance of error that I might miss somebody Moderator: Real email address in URL link is now munged. Last edited by Sherry : 9 Jan 2011 at 04:08 PM.

9 Jan 2011, 06:05 AM	#2
hadaso Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holon, Israel. Posts: 5,216	Probably you can just disable "phishing protection". access the message, then re-enable phishing protection ("Options"/"Preferences" screen, "View" section). It's a pity we still do not have a way to undo it just for the message being read from within the message (like we are able to allow display of external images when they are disabled by default). the "phishing protection" thing has lots of false positives. Another option may be just viewing the message in plain text mode. Then perhaps it can be copied to a text editor and the "find and replace" functionality of the text editor used to cleanup whatever's left and leave just a comma separated list of addresses. BTW, you should edit your post and munge the link (the shown text is munged but not the url that still shows a real email address).

10 Jan 2011, 11:12 PM	#3
Chipper Master of the @ Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Greenbelt, MD (USA) Posts: 1,279	Jikes -- thought I had replaced all fake info with real info. Thanks for noticing hadaso, and thanks for fixing, Sherry. Don't like having to turn off phishing protection because I can see myself getting get distracted, go on to something else and forget to turn it back on. That would be my own fault, but if that's the only way to fix it, I guess that leaves me two options: * Turn off and hope I don't forget to turn back on * Deal with it and have to try to clean up On this go around, somebody else was able to handle the address clean up.