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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> spamassassin-users
spamassassin-users
Re: Stock spam in images
by Stuart Johnston other posts by this author
Oct 2 2006 9:07AM messages near this date
Re: Stock spam in images | Re: Stock spam in images
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>  On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote:
> >> undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected 
> >> text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam 
> >> worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images.
> > I think so.  Some of the words would be perfectly legitimate in the text
> > of emails but rarely found in attached legitimate images.
> >
> > Quite apart from the fact that Spamassassin isn't designed for
> > "reinjection".
>  
>  FWIW, 3.2 adds in support to have rendering of non-text parts.  So a plugin
>  could, for instance, OCR text from an image, and then the normal body rules
>  and such would be able to use that information.
>  

Would it also be possible to create a rule that matches on text rendered specifically from a
 
non-text part and not the whole body?  That way you could get the benefit of Bayes and exist
ing body 
rules in the general case while still taking advantage of the fact the certain words in an i
mage 
have more spammy-weight than the same words in text.
Thread:
Dylan Bouterse
Brent Kennedy
Giampaolo Tomassoni
Fabien GARZIANO
Phil Randal
Giampaolo Tomassoni
Fabien GARZIANO
Phil Randal
Theo Van Dinter
Decoder
Stuart Johnston
Theo Van Dinter
Andreas Pettersson
Giampaolo Tomassoni
Giampaolo Tomassoni
Phil Randal
Decoder
Bowie Bailey
Giampaolo Tomassoni
Bret Miller
Dylan Bouterse

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