Whitelists and Fuzzy
Gareth
list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Wed Aug 22 09:37:17 IST 2007
The program is called fussy-find and is located in the Utils directory
in wherever you unpacked the source code to. Documentation is in the
readme file in the same directory.
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 09:29, Jeramy Eling wrote:
> Gareth,
>
> Having not used the mentioned tools before do you know where I can find
> documentation for them. I'm currently looking on the FuzzyOCR site and
> there doesn't appear to be anything.
>
> Jez
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth [mailto:list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com]
> Sent: 22 August 2007 09:22
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Whitelists and Fuzzy
>
> 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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