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High Spam Score

by mikeinthe852 » Sat Nov 05, 2022 1:01 am

Hi Mark

Thanks again for making such an awesome extension! We are using version 3.3.17

Recently we have been getting hammered with our spam score on www.mail-tester.com/
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Two items are causing us issues.
1. When a post contains a quote, the digest contains an 'onclick' event which is being flagged.
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2. Some internal links use a 'sid' that is being flagged as a incorrectly formatted URL
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I have tried putting 'onclick' in the 'Tags to strip from digests:' section, but that does not work.
I guess I should have realized it's not really a html tag.

Any advice? Any other way to filter out these 'dangerous elements' and 'broken links' to get our Digest past the spam filters? In the meantime, I have switched to 'text' Digests, but it really lacks the impact of the 'styled' version.
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Re: High Spam Score

by MarkDHamill » Sat Nov 05, 2022 1:28 am

onclick is not a tag, but a tag attribute. There is no <onclick> tag defined in the HTML specification. So that won't work.

Your web host can often help you get off a specific email blacklist.

It's unclear to me why the sid parameter is in the URL. The markup is not in the code.
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Re: High Spam Score

by mikeinthe852 » Sat Nov 05, 2022 2:26 am

Your web host can often help you get off a specific email blacklist.
It looks like we are not blacklisted to any meaningful degree, so that is not the concern.
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I often see the 'sid' in the URL while browsing the forum, perhaps 30% of the time.
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Re: High Spam Score

by mikeinthe852 » Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:19 am

Is it possible to use CSS to remove the onclick function? or remove the sid?
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Re: High Spam Score

by MarkDHamill » Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:28 am

CSS controls styling so it wouldn't remove markup. It's unclear to me how the sid got added. There's no markup to do that.
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