Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Matthias Keller
Davin Flatten wrote: Just thought this might help someone out. Thanks to M. Blapp for an excellent SA Plugin. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can be used to nab those pesky spam messages that are hidden in gif,jpeg, or png images... Here is what I did to get the plugin running. (...)

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Davin Flatten
Matthias- Yes I had the same issue on my setup which I forgot to mention. I had to copy the Timeout.pm module from the SpamAssassin source tree into the installation path. On my machine it was cp /usr/local/src/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Timeout.pm

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Matthias Keller
Davin Flatten wrote: Matthias- Yes I had the same issue on my setup which I forgot to mention. I had to copy the Timeout.pm module from the SpamAssassin source tree into the installation path. On my machine it was Hmm I downloaded the archive for 3.1.0 and there's no Timeout.pm at all - so

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Loren Wilton
I downloaded the archive for 3.1.0 and there's no Timeout.pm at all - so i guess this has been introduced in 3.1.1 or so..? Does anyone know if it's safe to let it away? JM would be the one with the definitive answer. But my recollection is that it is a new/clean implementation of a manager

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Matthias Keller wrote: I downloaded the archive for 3.1.0 and there's no Timeout.pm at all - so i guess this has been introduced in 3.1.1 or so..? Correct, it was added into 3.1.1 (bug 4696). Does anyone know if it's safe to let it away? I haven't

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:19:51AM -0400, Davin Flatten wrote: You could try commenting out the line that loads this module. On you machine it might be already loaded, but on my installation it does not get loaded by default. If you have 3.1.1 installed it should be there already. Notice

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Stuart Johnston
Davin Flatten wrote: Just thought this might help someone out. Thanks to M. Blapp for an excellent SA Plugin. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can be used to nab those pesky spam messages that are hidden in gif,jpeg, or png images... This OCR stuff looks promising. Any comments on

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Matthias Keller
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Matthias Keller wrote: I downloaded the archive for 3.1.0 and there's no Timeout.pm at all - so i guess this has been introduced in 3.1.1 or so..? Correct, it was added into 3.1.1 (bug 4696). Does anyone know if

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Stephan Bosch
Davin Flatten schreef: Just thought this might help someone out. Thanks to M. Blapp for an excellent SA Plugin. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can be used to nab those pesky spam messages that are hidden in gif,jpeg, or png images... I ran a search on the patch and I didn't see any

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Davin Flatten
Stuart- Not significant that I have noticed. We are running a dedicated spamassassin gateway however. It's only job is to process spam. It is running dual Xeon 2.80GHz/2MB cache with 4GB of RAM over RAID5 with some scratch partitions loaded in RAM. We also run clamav, mimedefang, bayes out

RE: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Jeff Moss
: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:41 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin' Davin Flatten wrote: Just thought this might help someone out. Thanks to M. Blapp for an excellent SA Plugin. Optical Character Recognition

RE: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread davea
out what's causing it. Jeff Moss -Original Message- From: Stuart Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:41 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin' Davin Flatten wrote

RE: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Jeff Moss
] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:41 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin' Davin Flatten wrote: Just thought this might help someone out. Thanks to M. Blapp for an excellent SA Plugin. Optical Character

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Davin Flatten
Jeff- Make sure you apply the patches to both the gocr source and Image::ExifTool. The gocr patch deals specifically with the segfault issues. From the docs: # - Perl module Image::ExifTool and a patch for GIF pics: # http://antispam.imp.ch/patches/patch-GIF-Colortable # # - Gocr from

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Davin Flatten
Jeff- You might also want to see if you copy the message out of a client application like Thunderbird and then copy the image to your server and running giftopnm on it. It might be that uudeview is the problem and not giftopnm. The errors sounds like a corrupt gif image. This should not

RE: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-03 Thread Jeff Moss
Moss Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin' Jeff- Make sure you apply the patches to both the gocr source and Image::ExifTool. The gocr patch deals specifically with the segfault issues. From the docs: # - Perl

Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

2006-08-02 Thread Tim Litwiller
results - are very good on my preliminary tests. these two spams look exactly the same in my email program except the subject line here is a spam before ---snip--- From - Wed Aug 02 22:29:15 2006 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1