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

[Scott Silva]

Glenn Steen spake the following on 10/5/2006 10:28 AM:
> 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
> 
Should be a default daemon installed in every operating system from now to the
end of time. Maybe it could be set to autorun on the extremely challenged.


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