Whitelists and Fuzzy

[Martin.Hepworth]

Jez

Must have  old version of maiLScanner - .bmp hasn't been blocked by default for a while

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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 15:46
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Whitelists and Fuzzy
>
> I've just checked and it would appear to be my inability to read the
> screen ;) It seems that the test email with image attached is whitelisted,
> however it's been blocked as it's a BMP and MailScanner stops those to
> prevent possible buffer overflows. DOH!!!
>
> Sorry for going round and round on this one.
>
> Thanks all for your help
>
> Cheers
>
> Jez
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth [mailto:list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com]
> Sent: 22 August 2007 15:38
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Whitelists and Fuzzy
>
> Yes spamassassin is still run against the rules so at least you can see
> what the score is. However if it is whitelisted then it is never classed
> as spam by mailscanner. On my mailscanner any whitelisted messages just
> shows 'whitelisted' where the spamassassin rules are normally listed so
> although I can see what the score was I cannot tell which specific rules
> were matched.
>
> Is that what you get?
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:32, Jeramy Eling wrote:
> > The address was added to the whitelist via the 'Lists' link at the top
> of MailWatch, this updates the 'Is Definitly Not Spam'  configuration
> within MailScanner, which in the config is set to an SQL function.
> >
> > The message does indeed come through as W/Listed and highlighted in
> Green on the display, however it has still been hit by the SA rules.
> >
> > Jez
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kai Schaetzl [mailto:maillists at conactive.com]
> > Sent: 22 August 2007 15:22
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: Re: Whitelists and Fuzzy
> >
> > Jeramy Eling wrote on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:44:29 +0100:
> >
> > > The Whitelist which is within the Mailwatch interface 'Is Definitely
> Not Spam'.
> >
> > I do not have such an option in my Mailwatch, I know only "Add to
> Whitelist".
> > There are at least two different ways that this whitelisting is used. If
> you use the wrong one it's bound to fail, of course, as it won't match.
> >
> > Does your test message (the detected one) gets marked as W/L and green
> in Mailwatch? Does the same happen for your problem messages? A message
> that is detected by the MS whitelist will be green, marked as W/L and will
> not have any SA hits shown. As you see SA hits that means it is not on the
> MS whitelist, probably because it contains the wrong values for matching
> (see above). What value does Mailwatch show under Lists in Mailwatch when
> you whitelist that problem message? And is this a value that could match
> your problem messages?
> >
> > Kai
> >
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> >
> >
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