Re: Redirectors Plugin vs. google maps => consent.google.com

[email protected] Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:17:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 4/7/26 3:09 PM, Wolfgang Breyha via users wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I currently see many SpamAssassin 4.0.2 timeouts caused by the Redirectors
> Plugin.
> 
> After I managed to get copies of the affected E-Mails I see a pattern.
> 
> They all have Links to https://www.google.com/maps/... which cause a
> redirect to https://constent.google.com/ml?continue=... with the same URI
> as initially fetched.
> 
> This causes a redirection continuation up to the configured limit.
> 
> Since google decided to answer pretty slow to these requests you easily
> reach Scantimes >3-4 Minutes if the source chose to insert multiple copies
> of these maps URIs.
> 
> And AFAIS the configured cache doesn't handle this scenario very well. At
> least not in a fashion speeding things up.
> 
> What's the best way to prevent that? The only option I currently see is
> clear_url_redirector google.com
> and that doesn't look that optimal.
> 
as a workaround I think you can decrease url_redirector_timeout and max_redir_url_redirections config values.
I saw this wrong behavior few times but mail processing finished quickly in any case.
I will take a look at it in any case.
  Thanks
   Giovanni

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