Whitelists and Fuzzy

[Charles Lacroix]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 08:47, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Jeramy Eling a écrit :
> > 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 have the same problem with someone's sig that triggers on "cialis"
> even though the pic says "social services".  On another occasion I
> reported a bug on the wiki and never got any feedback.  I am thinking
> about dropping this plugin...
>
> Denis
>
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I tried Fuzzy OCR for a while, and i had the same problem with images 
signatures. They trigger on pretty much anything in an unpredictable way :)



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