Re: [Razor-users] Strange false positive from Razor2

[Spam <spa...@mc...>]

Until I hear from the Razor developers that they are going to fix this soon,
I guess I will try and write a preprocessor that modifies messages and
eliminates the empty MIME parts before I feed them to razor.  Something
like:

cat message-to-check | nuke_blank_mime_parts | razor-check

Fox

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell J. Lahti" <ru...@aj...>
To: <raz...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: RE: [Razor-users] Strange false positive from Razor2


>
> There we go!  Thank you for answering *my* question.
>
> I was worried that my system was reporting all mail as
> SPAM, because inner-office mail was being marked as
> listed in razor2 by SpamAssassin.  After capturing one
> of these messages and running razor-check -d on it, those
> exact MIME parts in them, and report back positive.
>
> I've been forced to severely downgrade the points that
> the razor2 check adds to spamassasin because I have many
> people complaining about such false positives.
>
> Hopefully someone can resolve this so I can actually use
> razor2 in a productive way.
>
> -Russell
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>  > More than likely, you use Outlook or Outlook Express, and it added the
>  > little empty MIME part that Razor thinks is spam.  Check her message
and see
>  > if something like the following is in it.  I still haven't heard how
the
>  > Razor developers are going to fix this problem, but it would be
encouraging
>  > to know they haven't forgotten about it.  About 30% of my corporation's
>  > false positives (after I whitelisted all our mailing lists) are from
this
>  > one problem.
>  >
>  > Fox
>  >
>  > --------------cut here ---------------------------------
>  >
>  > Content-Type: text/plain;
>  >         charset="iso-8859-1"
>  > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>  >
>  > -----------------cut here -------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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