gOCR SpamAssassin plugin

[Julian Field]

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milter-greylist on sendmail. I didn't realise there were different 
methods to use.

Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
> 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?
>>>       
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>>>  °v°  Daniel Maher
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>>> Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
>>>       
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Michele Neylon::
>>>> Blacknight.ie
>>>> Sent: August 7, 2006 9:53 AM
>>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>>> Subject: Re: gOCR SpamAssassin plugin
>>>>
>>>> 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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