Als je je afvraagt waar dit over gaat: zie hier.
Update: helaas was ik niet de eerste met dit idee. Gisteren heeft iemand hier het idee al gelanceerd, en eerder vandaag postte iemand deze variant.
“Martijn, de man die precies even snel snowboardt als zijn schaduw”
More or less the only ‘spam’ that reaches my inbox, is the occasional phishing mail, made to appear to be sent from a Dutch bank, trying to find out my online banking credentials. I want to get rid of those.
Now, the solution that I came up with, is somewhat crude, but I wonder if it will result in any false positives. I don’t think I have ever received a legitimate mail from a bank I do business, but I have been told by friends, and by ABN AMRO bank itself, that they do sometimes send out mail to (potential) customers. The question is: do theses mails originate from the Netherlands?
What I did was the following. My MTA is Exim, and it is already configured to identify the originating country for a given email, using a GeoIP lookup. Every mail coming in through my MTA has headers like these:
X-GeoIP-Code: US X-GeoIP-Country: United States
So, if I want to block mails from a certain sender (and I want to be looking at the From: header rather than the envelope sender here), unless it came from inside the Netherlands, I can just implement a simple SpamAssassin check:
# Phishing from Dutch banks header __GEO_FROM_NL X-GeoIP-Code =~ /^NL$/ header __FROM_DUTCH_BANK From =~ /(ING Bank|Rabobank|ABN AMRO)/i meta DUTCH_BANK_FOREIGN_IP (__FROM_DUTCH_BANK && !__GEO_FROM_NL) describe DUTCH_BANK_FOREIGN_IP Dutch bank mailed from a foreign IP score DUTCH_BANK_FOREIGN_IP 2.5
Anything with a score of 3.1 or higher is considered SPAM, so adding 2.5 points can still get the message through, if nothing else is wrong with it. However, this is hardly ever the case. If necessary, I could raise the score a little, but in the mean time, it’s nice to know that a legitimate mail, even if it came from abroad, could still have a chance to come through.
Is this a good idea, or would this result in false positives for sure?
Just getting used to working with new Firefox 4, I noticed something was missing: the small drop-down menu that used to be next to the back/forward buttons, which allowed you to go back in your history faster than one page at a time. Apparently, the presence of this menu was considered a bug, hence it was removed.
I use that quite a lot, so I was just a little bit upset that it was gone, but as always in the land of open software, someone has come up with a solution. This cute little add-on restores the history drop-down menu. Nice!
(And yes, I know a right-click on the back button does exactly the same thing, but on my laptop, when my right hand is over the touchpad, having to click the right-side button is just not convenient.)