Whitelists and Fuzzy

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Wed Aug 22 09:22:07 IST 2007


If you have a whitelist defined in mailwatch then it will be whitelisted
regardless of the spamassassin score unless you have not configured the
whitelist custom function correctly in mailscanner.

Fuzzyocr has oviously detected the picture in the past and has stored a
hash of it together with its score in its database to save future
processing. If this image got a high score due to misconfiguration of
the words file then you can use one of the tools that came with fuzzyocr
to remove that image from the database so next time it is found it will
recalculate the score.

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 09:15, Jeramy Eling wrote:
> 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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