NAME¶

DecodeShortURLs - deprecated, merged into Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Redirectors

SYNOPSIS¶

  loadplugin    Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs

DESCRIPTION¶

This plugin is deprecated. All of its functionality (the "url_shortener*" settings and the "short_url*" eval rules) has been merged into Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Redirectors, which also gained the ability to follow a redirect chain that mixes shorteners and redirectors in either order, there is no functional difference between the two, both are just a host whose HTTP response redirects elsewhere.

This module remains only as a compatibility shim so that existing configuration files with "loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs" keep working unchanged. It loads "Redirectors" and inherits all of its behavior. New configurations should load "Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Redirectors" directly instead.

If caching is enabled, this shim keeps using the original "short_url_cache" table/columns from before the plugins were merged, so an existing cache is not silently abandoned. Switching "loadplugin" to "Redirectors" starts a fresh "redir_url_cache" table instead.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS¶

Original DecodeShortURLs plugin was developed by Steve Freegard.