Rops schrieb: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for your reply. > As I am not a server admin myself, I don't have access to any filter > settings. > Also in global servers, there isn't any admin available to talk or complain > about problems :-(
thats your problem, change your email provider > > But it looks very much that Spam assassin does more harm then helps people. > As there seldom any spam is catched but instead mostly I see normal messages > alerted as spam. nonsense, as all software it must be handeled and adjusted normally you or the admin may whitelist the sender in spamassassin if this ist possible mailadmins are ignorants, change your email provider > > The sender of mail is familiar to me and always has used a small company > footer in Email. aha, by what kind of telepathy , the mailserver should know this? > > estpak has several MXR's but looks like all don't check for footer images, > as in many messages there is no entries in header, even when footer is > always present. again ask your email provider > > So what's the conclusion - that email messages aren't allowed to include any > images? > Why then images are supported in Outlook at all? nonsense, you didnt understand spam marking techniques small gifs are often use for gif spam ( viagra etc ), there are serveral ways to detect them i.e known hash or ocr scanning and comparing result with a bad word database, vor flase positives whitelisting and/or lower scoring is possible > > Or what's wrong with image, that it's named a FUZZY_OCR? fuzzy_ocr is a spam marking rule/application in spamassassin it can be configured depending to the mailserver setup by either user oder admin from the mailserver, this would avoid false postives, its not the guilty of some software if ignorants use it ! > > > Best Regards > Roberta > > > > Rops schrieb: >> Hello, >> >> I'm an end user trying to figure out, why too many messages arrive >> erratically stamped as spam. >> Please could anyone explain, why the normally looking ordinary daily >> business mail was classified as Spam? >> >> Thank you! > > look this line > > amavisd-new at estpak.ee > > looks like estpak.ee > does the spam scanning > so your question should go to the admin of this server > that he might give a deeper analysis > an get down with spam points giving by > FUZZY_OCR > > the detecting spam rules look like > matching to images/gifs etc in the mail > see fuzzy_ocr images rules > > mostly comming from using > small images ( gifs etc ) > as part of the signature > while marketing means this is a good idea, which it isnt > > but your question was too general, to give more qualified answer > -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
