-----Original Message-----
From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:Bowie_Bailey@[...].com] 
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:46 AM
To: users@[...].org
Subject: RE: Stock spam in images

Dylan Bouterse wrote:
>  I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
>  what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen
>  anything yet.
>  
>  Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but
>  now all the good info is in an image and typically following the
>  image is random text to fool the Bayesian filter. I think the random
>  text thing has been covered here recently. It's frustrating when sa
>  is giving a -1.6 (or so) score to these emails right off the bat.
>  Quite a few of these aren't even getting spam headers because they
>  aren't scoring high enough. Is there some magical trick to help score
>  these messages higher? Maybe a future version of sa will incorporate
>  an OCR module? :) 
>  
>  Dylan

How about the FuzzyOCR plugin?  That has been discussed quite a bit
here recently.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin

-- 
Bowie



Thank you everyone for your responses! I will try the FuzzyOCR module.

Dylan