Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 03/07/07 05:19, Chris Lale wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> fuzzyocr is supposed to handle this.  I'm not sure if it's in Etch.
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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.

Thanks Ron.

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Chris.