Image scanning - flesh tones

[Martin.Hepworth]

Given my experience of MailSweeper I'd steer well clear of this.

I moved from MailSweeper to MailScanner and

went from a 100% busy Dual PIII 1GB ram SCSI based system that could
only hold 5 days of live data, hundreds of false positives, missed lots
and lots of spam (false negatives!) and most of my time hand holding the
thing to..

a 600mhz Celeron, 512MB ram and an IDE disk where I could keep 1 months
live data (amost zero false positives, almost zero false negatives) and
cpu free was enough to last me for another 2 years spam increase. Oh
yeah and my working day back!

It may have got better, but I'm not switching back.

FuzzyOCR can do OCR based stuff, but for mpg/jpeg stuff like flesh tones
etc you'll need something else. Might be worth asking on the
Spamassassin-users list if anyone's got plugin that does this stuff
(MaiLScanner calls Spamassassin for most of it's spam detection).

--
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 Paul Welsh
> Sent: 15 February 2007 20:25
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Image scanning - flesh tones
>
> My employer uses MessageLabs.  Apart from the advantage of being
> outsourced,
> it also scans images in email for flesh tones and therefore blocks
some
> unsuitable images in messages.  As I recall, MailSweeper from
Clearswift
> used to do this too.
>
> I know MailScanner can block video images by file type.  Does anybody
know
> of any add-on that does image filtering by content?
>
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