Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 03/07/07 07:32, Chris Lale wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 03/07/07 05:19, Chris Lale wrote:
There was some discussion on the list a while ago about how to deal with
spam that has text as graphics embedded in it. There was disagreement
about whether or not to use it to teach SpamAssassin. I have continued
feeding this spam to SpamAssassin, but a large amount still gets
through.

Does anyone know of a way to deal with spam with embedded graphics? I
cannot use greylisting on a home desktop machine.

Any thoughts welcome.
fuzzyocr is supposed to handle this. I'm not sure if it's in Etch.
Its in Unstable but depends on libdigest-md5-perl which is not in Etch.
There are instructions for Sarge and Etch at
http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/wiki/OSSpecificNotes.

I think I'll give it a whirl.

I just tried it and it has (I think) already caught a few spams.


Thanks to all who contributed advice. I added fuzzyocr to spamassassin a couple of weeks ago and it sems to be working pretty well.

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Chris.


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