All, The current functionality requires me to receive mails that contains image and process them.
So I want a good tool to deal with image spam. Please suggest some. Thanks Ashish Sharma -----Original Message----- From: Jason Bertoch [mailto:ja...@i6ix.com] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:03 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Suggest OCR plugin on Spamassassin 3.3.1 for image spam On 7/20/2011 9:18 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 07/20, Sharma, Ashish wrote: >> Can someone suggest some better OCR plugin for Spamassassin 3.3.1 for image >> spam? > 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. > > Inlined attached images are not a feature that I find anywhere near worth > having enough to justify needing to OCR image spam. > Image spam was a huge deal when it first came out, and there were several sources scrambling to offer a solution, including resources to involve Bayes on the decoded text. Those worked well enough to deter, for the time-being anyway, that method of spamming. That said, while I agree with your sentiment toward inline images and HTML mail in general, they are a common business practice and many folks simply can't use the outright block method. At my last job, I eventually found that image-spam dropped to such a significant low that I didn't need OCR anymore but was still required to allow inline images through. /Jason
