gOCR SpamAssassin plugin

Alex Neuman van der Hans alex at nkpanama.com
Thu Aug 10 22:54:36 IST 2006


I've set it to as little as 30 seconds with success. People notice it
even less.

May we inquire which of the many greylisting methods you used?

Julian Field wrote:
> The solution to this that I have just deployed here is "greylisting". I 
> have set the delay time to 10 minutes, and the whitelist-remember time 
> to 32 days. No-one notices the 10 minutes delay on the first email in a 
> conversation, and 32 days means that the monthly email reminder messages 
> from mailing lists are whitelisted.
> 
> My users are *really* fussy, and I ran a trial of greylisting for a week 
> with a few selected users who opted in to the trial. I purposely didn't 
> tell them what I was changing so I could run a proper blind test. Not 
> one of them noticed the 10 minute delay time. So I have just deployed it 
> out to all 2000 users I have, and there have been no complaints at all.
> 
> It has got rid of the single-image stock adverts completely.
> :-)
> 
> 
> Daniel Maher wrote:
>> I've noticed that a lot of the image spam uses bitmap (.bmp) images.  Unfortunately, that SARE plugin appears to handle gif, png, and jpg images only.  Does anybody know of a plugin that will recognise bmp's as well?
> 
>> --
>>   _
>>  °v°  Daniel Maher
>> /(_)\ Administrateur Système Unix
>>  ^ ^  Unix System Administrator
> 
>> Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
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>>> Sent: August 7, 2006 9:53 AM
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Re: gOCR SpamAssassin plugin
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>>> The one that Dallas posted on the SA users group seems to work well:
>>>
>>> http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins.htm#imageinfo
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