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[ILUG] Additional spam protection

[ILUG] Additional spam protection

James Galvin james at jamesgalvin.net
Wed Oct 18 09:25:35 IST 2006


Hi Fuzzix,

The interlaced GIF images are difficult to block, but the latest
FuzzyOCR plugin for SpamAssassin can detect these.

James


fuzzix wrote:
> Colm Buckley wrote:
>>     * All incoming list messages have HTML and image parts removed
>>     * If the resulting mail contains only whitespace, it is dropped
> 
> Good stuff - thanks.
> 
> I'm running two mail servers with spamassassin. I get lot of those
> messages with animated GIFs containing useful and interesting stock
> information + random text appended making it through on both of them.
> 
> Has anyone come across a way to filter these? I could just block
> animated GIFs, I guess, but people tend to send those to each other...
> 



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