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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Max Clark <ma...@gmail.com> on 2006/10/13 01:27:31 UTC
Increase in Spam
I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
effectively combat this?
Thanks in advance,
Max
--
Max Clark
http://www.clarksys.com
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Clifton Royston <cl...@lava.net>.
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:08:08PM -0400, Steve Lake wrote:
> Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on
> Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand.
No there isn't. However, if you use ports to pull in
p5-String-Approx, graphics/netpbm, graphics/libungif,
graphics/ImageMagick, and graphics/gocr, and all their dependencies, I
think that'll fetch everything.
-- Clifton
--
Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net
President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/
Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Jo Rhett <jr...@netconsonance.com>.
Steve Lake wrote:
> Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on
> Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that
> would assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If
> not, it'll be a royal b**** trying to get the nix versions installed
> instead if no freebsd ported versions are available. :(
So go make one :-) It's easy enough.
--
Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by jdow <jd...@earthlink.net>.
As beta it works very well. No crashes etc. It needs fine tuning to
make it more effective, though.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Lake" <st...@raiden.net>
> Oh, beta. Hmm, I guess I'm going to have to hold off on
> installing it then. I can't risk putting betas on a production server,
> even if it is a small one. Do you know if they'll make an announcement
> about it when it's released?
>
> At 11:25 PM 10/14/2006 -0700, jdow wrote:
>>It's a few lines of perl. Download it. Put the pieces in the appropriate
>>places. Go.
>>
>>(The direct answer is "of course not." It's still beta and nobody has
>>done rpms, debs, or ports of it. There might now be a zip or tar file
>>of it.)
>>
>>{^_-}
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Lake" <st...@raiden.net>
>>
>>
>>> Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on
>>> Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that
>>> would assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If
>>> not, it'll be a royal b**** trying to get the nix versions installed
>>> instead if no freebsd ported versions are available. :(
>>> Also, stupid question to go with the first comment. Will this
>>> plugin be included in 3.2.0 so that it's native, or at least an optional
>>> feature? I don't care if it takes a bit of extra processor power. The
>>> server is a low volume dedicated server, so CPU load isn't an issue.
>>> Spam catching of near 100% is. :)
>>>At 05:01 PM 10/12/2006 -0700, Kelson wrote:
>>>>Max Clark wrote:
>>>>>I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
>>>>>through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
>>>>>the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
>>>>>effectively combat this?
>>>>
>>>>Look into FuzzyOCR.
>>>>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>>>>
>>>>Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more
>>>>precisely, per message with attached images). YMMV.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Kelson Vibber
>>>>SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
>>>Steven Lake
>>>Owner/Technical Writer
>>>Raiden's Realm
>>>www.raiden.net
>>>A friendly web community
>>
>
> Steven Lake
> Owner/Technical Writer
> Raiden's Realm
> www.raiden.net
> A friendly web community
>
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Steve Lake <st...@raiden.net>.
Oh, beta. Hmm, I guess I'm going to have to hold off on
installing it then. I can't risk putting betas on a production server,
even if it is a small one. Do you know if they'll make an announcement
about it when it's released?
At 11:25 PM 10/14/2006 -0700, jdow wrote:
>It's a few lines of perl. Download it. Put the pieces in the appropriate
>places. Go.
>
>(The direct answer is "of course not." It's still beta and nobody has
>done rpms, debs, or ports of it. There might now be a zip or tar file
>of it.)
>
>{^_-}
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Lake" <st...@raiden.net>
>
>
>> Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on
>> Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that
>> would assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If
>> not, it'll be a royal b**** trying to get the nix versions installed
>> instead if no freebsd ported versions are available. :(
>> Also, stupid question to go with the first comment. Will this
>> plugin be included in 3.2.0 so that it's native, or at least an optional
>> feature? I don't care if it takes a bit of extra processor power. The
>> server is a low volume dedicated server, so CPU load isn't an
>> issue. Spam catching of near 100% is. :)
>>At 05:01 PM 10/12/2006 -0700, Kelson wrote:
>>>Max Clark wrote:
>>>>I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
>>>>through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
>>>>the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
>>>>effectively combat this?
>>>
>>>Look into FuzzyOCR.
>>>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>>>
>>>Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more
>>>precisely, per message with attached images). YMMV.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Kelson Vibber
>>>SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
>>Steven Lake
>>Owner/Technical Writer
>>Raiden's Realm
>>www.raiden.net
>>A friendly web community
>
Steven Lake
Owner/Technical Writer
Raiden's Realm
www.raiden.net
A friendly web community
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by jdow <jd...@earthlink.net>.
It's a few lines of perl. Download it. Put the pieces in the appropriate
places. Go.
(The direct answer is "of course not." It's still beta and nobody has
done rpms, debs, or ports of it. There might now be a zip or tar file
of it.)
{^_-}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Lake" <st...@raiden.net>
> Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on
> Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that would
> assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If not,
> it'll be a royal b**** trying to get the nix versions installed instead if
> no freebsd ported versions are available. :(
>
> Also, stupid question to go with the first comment. Will this
> plugin be included in 3.2.0 so that it's native, or at least an optional
> feature? I don't care if it takes a bit of extra processor power. The
> server is a low volume dedicated server, so CPU load isn't an issue. Spam
> catching of near 100% is. :)
>
> At 05:01 PM 10/12/2006 -0700, Kelson wrote:
>>Max Clark wrote:
>>>I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
>>>through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
>>>the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
>>>effectively combat this?
>>
>>Look into FuzzyOCR.
>>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>>
>>Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more precisely,
>>per message with attached images). YMMV.
>>
>>--
>>Kelson Vibber
>>SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
>>
>
> Steven Lake
> Owner/Technical Writer
> Raiden's Realm
> www.raiden.net
> A friendly web community
>
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by John Thompson <jo...@vector.os2.dhs.org>.
On 2006-10-15, Steve Lake <st...@raiden.net> wrote:
> Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on
> Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that would
> assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If not,
> it'll be a royal b**** trying to get the nix versions installed instead if
> no freebsd ported versions are available. :(
FuzzyORC itself doesn't have a FreeBSD port, but it's just a perl
script. It depends on gocr for image processing, though, and there is a
FreeBSD port for that available. Seems to work fine here on FreeBSD-5.4
Stable.
> Also, stupid question to go with the first comment. Will this
> plugin be included in 3.2.0 so that it's native, or at least an optional
> feature? I don't care if it takes a bit of extra processor power. The
> server is a low volume dedicated server, so CPU load isn't an issue. Spam
> catching of near 100% is. :)
I have no idea if FuzzyOCR is being considered for inclusion into SA. It
does take a considerable amount of CPU and memory resources, though. I'm
running it on a dual PIII-600 system with 512MB RAM and scan times are
routinely over 2 minutes/message, and a fair amount of swap is always in
use.
--
John (john@os2.dhs.org)
RE: Increase in Spam
Posted by Larry Rosenman <le...@lerctr.org>.
Steve Lake wrote:
> Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port
> on Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then
> that would assume that all the other necessary ports are present as
> well. If not, it'll be a royal b**** trying to get the nix versions
> installed instead if no freebsd ported versions are available. :(
>
> Also, stupid question to go with the first comment. Will
> this plugin be included in 3.2.0 so that it's native, or at least an
> optional feature? I don't care if it takes a bit of extra processor
> power. The server is a low volume dedicated server, so CPU load
> isn't an issue. Spam catching of near 100% is. :)
>
> At 05:01 PM 10/12/2006 -0700, Kelson wrote:
>> Max Clark wrote:
>>> I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
>>> through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
>>> the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
>>> effectively combat this?
>>
>> Look into FuzzyOCR.
>> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>>
>> Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more
>> precisely, per message with attached images). YMMV.
>>
>> --
>> Kelson Vibber
>> SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
>>
>
> Steven Lake
> Owner/Technical Writer
> Raiden's Realm
> www.raiden.net
> A friendly web community
All the ports, except one, are there. I really should
put together a port (I'm running it on my FreeBSD/amd64 mailhost.
Works great.
--
Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org
US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Steve Lake <st...@raiden.net>.
Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on
Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that would
assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If not,
it'll be a royal b**** trying to get the nix versions installed instead if
no freebsd ported versions are available. :(
Also, stupid question to go with the first comment. Will this
plugin be included in 3.2.0 so that it's native, or at least an optional
feature? I don't care if it takes a bit of extra processor power. The
server is a low volume dedicated server, so CPU load isn't an issue. Spam
catching of near 100% is. :)
At 05:01 PM 10/12/2006 -0700, Kelson wrote:
>Max Clark wrote:
>>I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
>>through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
>>the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
>>effectively combat this?
>
>Look into FuzzyOCR.
>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>
>Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more precisely,
>per message with attached images). YMMV.
>
>--
>Kelson Vibber
>SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
>
Steven Lake
Owner/Technical Writer
Raiden's Realm
www.raiden.net
A friendly web community
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Clifton Royston <cl...@lava.net>.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:08:23PM -0700, Max Clark wrote:
> Thanks - this is exactly what I was looking for.
>
> -Max
>
> On 10/12/06, Kelson <ke...@speed.net> wrote:
> >Max Clark wrote:
> >> I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
> >> through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
> >> the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
> >> effectively combat this?
> >
> >Look into FuzzyOCR.
> >http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
> >
> >Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more
> >precisely, per message with attached images). YMMV.
Be warned also, it's a bit of a pain to install because it has a
number of prerequisites (gocr, ImageMagick, netpbm, etc.) On a FreeBSD
server with no previous graphics-related packages, I had to build and
install something like 17 or 18 new packages.
Preliminary testing says it works well though, though I haven't yet
moved it into production.
-- Clifton
--
Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net
President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/
Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Max Clark <ma...@gmail.com>.
Thanks - this is exactly what I was looking for.
-Max
On 10/12/06, Kelson <ke...@speed.net> wrote:
> Max Clark wrote:
> > I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
> > through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
> > the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
> > effectively combat this?
>
> Look into FuzzyOCR.
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>
> Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more
> precisely, per message with attached images). YMMV.
>
> --
> Kelson Vibber
> SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
>
--
Max Clark
http://www.clarksys.com
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Kelson <ke...@speed.net>.
Max Clark wrote:
> I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
> through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
> the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
> effectively combat this?
Look into FuzzyOCR.
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
Drawback: it needs lots of CPU and extra time per message (more
precisely, per message with attached images). YMMV.
--
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Clifton Royston <cl...@lava.net>.
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:35:33PM +0530, Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote:
> I have added those to the local.cf but doesn't seems to be working, what
> could be the reason?
These rule score adjustments depend on having added some of the SARE
rules; I'm not sure which set they're from.
-- Clifton
...
> Put below in line in local.cf file, I will be very helpful to you to
> increase score of such type of spam. By default Spamassassin giving
> it 0.8 and 1.7. By adding below custom score, i am able to quarantine
> such type of spam.
>
> score SARE_GIF_ATTACH 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
> score SARE_GIF_STOX 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
--
Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net
President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/
Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services
RE: Increase in Spam
Posted by "Suhas (QualiSpace)" <su...@qualispace.com>.
I have added those to the local.cf but doesn't seems to be working, what
could be the reason?
Warm Regards,
Suhas
System Admin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hardik Dalwadi [mailto:hardik@nifindia.org]
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:56 PM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Increase in Spam
Hi!
Max Clark said the following, On Friday 13 October 2006 04:57 AM:
> I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
> through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
> the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
> effectively combat this?
Put below in line in local.cf file, I will be very helpful to you to
increase score of such type of spam. By default Spamassassin giving
it 0.8 and 1.7. By adding below custom score, i am able to quarantine
such type of spam.
-------------------------------------
score SARE_GIF_ATTACH 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
score SARE_GIF_STOX 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
-------------------------------------
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Max
>
--
Hardik Dalwadi,
National Innovation Foundation.
Re: Increase in Spam
Posted by Hardik Dalwadi <ha...@nifindia.org>.
Hi!
Max Clark said the following, On Friday 13 October 2006 04:57 AM:
> I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way
> through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be
> the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to
> effectively combat this?
Put below in line in local.cf file, I will be very helpful to you to
increase score of such type of spam. By default Spamassassin giving
it 0.8 and 1.7. By adding below custom score, i am able to quarantine
such type of spam.
-------------------------------------
score SARE_GIF_ATTACH 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
score SARE_GIF_STOX 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
-------------------------------------
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Max
>
--
Hardik Dalwadi,
National Innovation Foundation.