David, >[We don't use OCR, as it happens. We usually catch image spams anyway >using other techniques.]
Can you please outline the other techniques that you use to catch image spams? Thanks Ashish Sharma -----Original Message----- From: David F. Skoll [mailto:d...@roaringpenguin.com] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:50 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Suggest OCR plugin on Spamassassin 3.3.1 for image spam On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:18:48 -0400 dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > It still seems strange to me that anybody has ever bothered with > using OCR to deal with image spam, when it's so easy, and for me not > problematic, to just block all emails that might be image spam - > those with an attached image that is embedded in the body of an html > mail. We receive many legitimate [sic] emails that use an embedded image in that way. Lots of companies think it's really cool to include their logo in a .sig :( > I've been very happily using this since 2006, and it completely made > image spam go away. Is this on a business account where it's critical for you to accept email from... ahem... somewhat less-than-knowledgeable people? > Inlined attached images are not a feature that I find anywhere near > worth having enough to justify needing to OCR image spam. Unfortunately, we can't block those. The FP rate for us would be horrendous. [We don't use OCR, as it happens. We usually catch image spams anyway using other techniques.] Regards, David.
