SOLVED: Re: mailscanner hangs on automatic restart {Scanned}

[Glenn Steen]

On 05/10/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> Glenn Steen spake the following on 10/5/2006 12:49 AM:
> > On 04/10/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> > (snip)
> >> Never mind ... I actually RTFM. Will try to remember to do so in the
> >> future.
> > ... Amazing what that can reveal, eh?:-).
> >
> >> Replying to myself ... Hmmmm... Must be running postfix somewhere.
> >> Oh yeah... Now I remember ...
> > Always knew you were a closet PF user...:-D.
> >
> > Somewhat back on track: I thought I'd need both ImageInfo and
> > FuzzyOcr... But when I implemented ImageInfo (I like to change things
> > (that work:) one small step at a time, when possible... Tweaking, not
> > frobbing;), I fairly quickly realised it got all the image-based spam
> > without hardly any FPs (at least not any _new_ FPs... The ones FP'ing
> > was doing that already due to badly come together .... "marketing
> > systems"... "solicited" spam type of things:-). So I backed off from
> > the ocr bit (have it running on a testbed, but... will probably not
> > introduce it into production use).
> > <rant style="severity: mild;">
> > What amazes me is that some of the more influential merchant
> > banks/financial institutions have really no clue as to how to put mail
> > together that don't look spammy... Instead they annoy us (their
> > "users") with notes about please making exceptions _for their domain
> > names_ ... Really no clue at all.
> > If their communications are that important, why not make the effort to
> > set up SPF and/or Domain Keys... Or just avoid forging senders, HTML
> > mails with a lot of big images, ALL CAPS subjects etc etc etc. Jeez.
> > </rant>
> >
> It is just like the web designers that abbreviate words into their
> pron-looking equivalents and set off the content filters.
> I had a V.P. in here wondering why the (tit)anium driver he was trying to look
> at was classified as objectionable.
Ah. That problem... Closely related to OOdesign/development... "grope
through the objects private parts"... :-)

> I just need a TCP/IP enabled lart! Then I could give a clue anywhere in the world!
Sounds like a wothwile project... Only trouble is getting the (l)users
to install it:-) ... Or were you considering a change to the TCP
protocol...?:-D

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-- Glenn
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