-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Randal, Phil wrote: > This has been covered so many times on this list. > > 1: if you're not on spamassassin 3.1.5 get it now, and run > sa-update (via a cron job daily, but test first with a manual > sa-update -D) > > 2: pop over to http://www.rulesemporium.com and get an appropriate > selection of their rules, and configure Rules du Jour ( > http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour ) to download > them daily. > > 3: don't forget the additional rules here: > http://www.rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm I've found Fred's > header rules helpful > > 4: add the ImageInfo plugin from > http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins.htm > > 5: if you want to be adventurous, make sure you have ImageMagick, > ImageMagick-perl and other prerequisites installed and use the > FuzzyOCR plugin ( latest version at > http://www.joval.info/proj/FuzzyOcr.html , but see also > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin ). The FuzzyOCR > mailing list is very helpful too.
What do you mean with adventurous? Those versions published by joval are all devel. The stable version is available at http://users.own-hero.net/~decoder/fuzzyocr/ and works fine. There is nothing adventurous about them and the prerequisites are also lower than for the devel stuff. I am simply not able to continue development at the moment, but maybe in a few weeks, I'll start again. Best regards, Chris > > In my experience here a well-trained Bayes plus the various > RulesEmporium rulesets gets most of them. > > Cheers, > > Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council > Hereford, UK > >> -----Original Message----- From: Dylan Bouterse >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2006 14:38 To: >> users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Stock spam in images >> >> I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to >> see if what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't >> seen anything yet. >> >> Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam >> but now all the good info is in an image and typically following >> the image is random text to fool the Bayesian filter. I think the >> random text thing has been covered here recently. It's >> frustrating when sa is giving a -1.6 (or so) score to these >> emails right off the bat. Quite a few of these aren't even >> getting spam headers because they aren't scoring high enough. Is >> there some magical trick to help score these messages higher? >> Maybe a future version of sa will incorporate an OCR module? :) >> >> Dylan >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFIVpDJQIKXnJyDxURAoTiAJ0SS12lfncMkv/vaLpPX2dscSMkWwCfftby uosbxGicE+jBtHgaYCd0Klc= =RRVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
