Re: [exim] SPAM Filtering - Losing the war!

Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 25/10/06, Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote:
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>> Wakko Warner wrote:
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>>> Have you tried gocr? I have, it's not the greatest, but it is possible that
>>> it can read the image and allow you to react on the content of the image.
>>> It's not that great yet, but I think it could have potential (until spammers
>>> start using the other characters in the images like they are in text spam)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I have started to install it several times and got distracted. I think I
>> will try it.
>>
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> We've just implemented the FuzzyOCR plugin for SA, which uses gocr
> under the covers. It's catching 100% of the current wave of image spam
> with no FPs reported yet. Very impressed.
>
> Since the OCR is farly expensive I might look at pulling out the SA
> plugin bits and implementing the guts as a perl module to call
> directly from Exim (before SA), where I can be a bit more choosy about
> which attachments I choose to process.
>
> Peter
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That would be great if we can create an Exim equiv of the Fuzzy OCR
code. I'd rather drop it in Exim so that SA never sees it and therefore
never gets to poison my bayes filters.