Whitelists and Fuzzy

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed Aug 22 09:21:46 IST 2007


Jez

Hmm what other rules have hit in SA? Might be worth asking Steve et al on the mailwatch list about a problem with the MW whitelist stuff. There's been several threads on this in the past..

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Martin Hepworth
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeramy Eling
> Sent: 22 August 2007 09:16
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Whitelists and Fuzzy
>
> Hi Martin
>
> A little bit of background, I have MailWatch running and I've got this
> integrated to do the White and Black listing from within Mailwatch, so
> as far as the config is concerned it's 'Is Definitely Not Spam' and 'Is
> Definitely Spam', additionally I have one running to allow certain
> emails with forms through as well. If I look at the email in the
> quarantine it shows a score of 5.00 and a matching rule of
> 'FUZZY_OCR_KNOWN_HASH'.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jez
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin.Hepworth [mailto:martinh at solidstatelogic.com]
> Sent: 22 August 2007 09:06
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Whitelists and Fuzzy
>
> Jez
>
> Which whitelist did you use - there are several? I wonder why FuzzyOCR
> is triggering on this guys signature, a graphic signature (however
> misguided) is quite common.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeramy Eling
> > Sent: 22 August 2007 09:00
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: Whitelists and Fuzzy
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have an issue with my MailScanner setup blocking a particular email
> > as the guy has a image as a signature, Fuzzy sees this and cranks the
> > score up. I've whitelisted the email address but still the system see
> > the email as Spam and still blocks it.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it's possible to establish a Whitelist for Fuzzy
> > to ensure that these checks are performed on email from this
> > particular address?
> >
> > Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks In Advance
> >
> > Jez
>
>
>
>
>
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