FuzzyOcr Unexpected error only with MailScanner

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 31 19:03:34 GMT 2006


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Please can you send me off-list more details of this problem!

Kash, Howard (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
> Beware, there is a bug in the 4.57 version that causes it to not properly detect silent viruses if you have "Max Spam Check Size" set too low.  As far as I know, it hasn't been fixed yet.  It properly stops the virus, but sends a striped message to the recipient anyway.
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> Howard
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> ________________________________
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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Dominique Marant
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:03 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: FuzzyOcr Unexpected error only with MailScanner
>
>
> I sent my problem FuzzyOcr in the devel-spam list.
> It seems that FuzzyOcr fails because MailScanner truncates emails for spamassassin.
> How to configure MailScanner for the best compromise ?
> Perhaps it would be interresting to create a new variable "Max SpamAssassin OCR Size" for size of inserted or attached images ?
>
> What do you think of it ?
>
> Dominique
>
>
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> Dominique Marant wrote:
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> 	> Yes, I'm using MailScanner
> 	  
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> Mailscanner truncates emails which exceed a given size specified in
> their config. They also truncate inside attachments, leading to "half"
> images, which are to be considered as corrupt. jpegtopnm cannot handle
> these and will fail. This is not a problem of FuzzyOcr but MailScanner's.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Chris
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>
> 	>
> 	> regards Dom
> 	>
> 	>
> 	> decoder a écrit :
> 	>
> 	> Dominique Marant wrote:
> 	>
> 	  
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> 				>>>> I use FuzzyOcr with SA 3.1.7
> 				>>>>
> 				>>>> In FuzzyOcr.log, I have a lot of error messages like :
> 				>>>>
> 				>>>> [2006-10-30 08:54:30] Unexpected error in pipe to external
> 				>>>> programs. Please check that all helper programs are installed
> 				>>>> and in the correct path. (Pipe Command "/usr/bin/jpegtopnm",
> 				>>>> Pipe
> 				        
>
> 	> exit code
> 	  
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> 				>>>> 2 (""), Temporary file: "/tmp/.spamassassin18742sUMUDptmp")
> 				>>>>
> 				>>>> How to fix this problem ?
> 				>>>>
> 				        
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> 	> Are you using third party applications such as mailscanner?
> 	>
> 	> Best regards,
> 	>
> 	> Chris
> 	>
> 	>
> 	  
>
> 				>>>> Regards, Dom
> 				>>>>
> 				>>>> ______________
>
>
> An other reply :
> ---------------------------------------
>
>
> 	looks like Mailscanner is the issue (according to decoder's mail). Amavis 
> 	works perfect, maybe you could consider it.
> 	
> 	rgds,
> 	Joseph
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
>
> Dominique Marant a écrit : 
>
> 	Hello 
> 	
> 	I installed FuzzyOcr (debian / MailScanner / Spamassassin) 
> 	
> 	It seems to running : 
> 	for example : 
> 	... is polluriel, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=19.202, requis 7, autolearn=disabled, FUZZY_OCR 14.00, HTML_10_20 0.94, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_28 1.01, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 1.99, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO 1.25) 
> 	
> 	But in FuzzyOcr.log, I see : 
> 	
> 	
> 	# more FuzzyOcr.log 
> 	[2006-10-24 16:36:42] Unexpected error in pipe to external programs. 
> 	                     Please check that all helper programs are installed and in the correct path. 
> 	                     (Pipe Command "/usr/bin/jpegtopnm", Pipe exit code 2 (""), Temporary file: "/tmp/.spamassassin2537050jAY2tmp") 
> 	[2006-10-24 16:37:47] Unexpected error in pipe to external programs. 
> 	                     Please check that all helper programs are installed and in the correct path. 
> 	                     (Pipe Command "/usr/bin/jpegtopnm", Pipe exit code 2 (""), Temporary file: "/tmp/.spamassassin25926yhpqsstmp") 
> 	[2006-10-24 16:41:32] FuzzyOcr received timeout after running "10" seconds. 
> 	[2006-10-24 16:42:33] Unexpected error in pipe to external programs. 
> 	                     Please check that all helper programs are installed and in the correct path. 
> 	                     (Pipe Command "/usr/bin/jpegtopnm", Pipe exit code 2 (""), Temporary file: "/tmp/.spamassassin28372mzT0dZtmp") 
> 	... 
> 	
> 	Could you help me ? 
> 	
> 	
> 	Many thanks in advance 
> 	Dominique 
> 	
>
>
>
>   

Jules

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