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How it works

This plugin checks for specific keywords in image/gif attachments, using gocr (an optical character recognition program).

This plugin can be used to detect spam that puts all the real spam content in an attached image. The mail itself only random text and random html, without any URL's or identifiable information.

Requirements

You will need giftopnm and gocr installed.

Remarks

  • Note that this is my first SA plugin, so any feedback is welcome

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  • The words checked for are specific for some spam I received a lot of recently.
  • TODO:

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  • Words are

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  • hardcoded

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  • Should be a configuration parameter instead.

You will need giftopnm and gocr installed.

– Author: Maarten de Boer, mdeboer at iua dot upf dot edu

Code

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