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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Ubuntu 9.10

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http://howtoforge.com – Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Ubuntu 9.10 This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails. FuzzyOCR tries to keep the system load low by scanning only mails that have not already been categorized as spam by SpamAssassin, thus avoiding unnecessary (HowTos)

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Submitted by linuxgeek on 04/23/2010 – Made popular on 04/23/2010

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