[Esd-l] Mangle of embedded URLs

Chris Payne cpayne at pr.uoguelph.ca
Fri Jan 7 08:11:17 PST 2005


You could add a procmail rule to your global procmailrc with a Formail 
script to modify all occurances of  http:// in the body of an email to  
weblink://

The rest of the URL address is in tact, but cannot be executed because 
weblink://  is not legal.


Regards,

- Chris Payne




On 7 Jan 2005 at 9:40, Smart,Dan wrote:

> Happy New Year John!
> 
> Since we are getting more and more Phishing emails with bogus reply URLs,
> is (would) it be possible to mangle in such a way that the URL is shown in
> Outlook, but cannot be executed?  
> 
> Most of these show a "nice name" but the embedded URL doesn't point there.
> 
> TIA
> 
> <<Dan>>
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Chris Payne
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