Never mind, then.

On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 2:47:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:

> Hi Duane,

> I don't see the point. SpamAssasin has really nothing to do with the filters 
> from IMail  .

> ============================================
> Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2005 um 15:00 schrieben Sie:

>> On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 10:17:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:

>>> Hi,

>>> I'm trying to find a rule to filter Mail containing a image only.

>>> The rule to filter an empty body would be:  B!~(\w|\S).

>>> This would not work if an image is in the body. the image tag "<img
>>> src=3Dcid:355c628c0d1c32416ab32a0657415cc7>" is a text.

>>> I'm not sure, If the parser excludes Image from text. So far i
>>> Remember IMail parses everything in the body, e.g. images, pdf's, doc's or 
>>> whatever we have.

>>> I think, the bulid in regex are not good enough to find a rule "If
>>> a mail contains a image AND not other text".

>>> Any idea?

>>> Thanks

>> Don't  know if this helps or not. I haven't investigated too much yet.
>> I've  seen  a  few but not that many to cause alarm yet. This was just
>> posted this morning on the users list for SpamAssassin:

>> -----

>> <QUESTION>
>>     I have setup SA 3.1 under FC4, which is working quite well.  However,
>> one type of message that still gets through is a series of mails that are
>> made up of no text other than a varying subject, then a picture, which is
>> black text on white, which looks exactly like an ordinary email.  Obviously
>> SA can't read the message since it is an image, but is there a way to make a
>> rule that blocks a mail where there is an image only, no text?
>> </QUESTION>

>> <RESPONSE>
>>         Yes, this is a problem, but a simple rule like you describe is overly
>> broad;  What happens when my wife sends our children snapshots from with her
>> cell phone (which causes exactly this case - though the pictures are in 
>> color).
>> Maybe other service providers add some text, and I know she *could* attach a
>> message, but seldom does (she just gives it a title like "Nice statue",
>> "Pretty bird" or similar short, almost meaningless "Subject:" lines).

>>         Also, you obviously haven't seen the multi-color text on colored
>> background spams with thin (one pixel) randomly angled lines going through
>> the text to confuse the commercial services who do already attempt character
>> recognition in images.  Maybe some enterprising individual will try to
>> write a plug-in for SA to do this (still, it would be computationally
>> expensive for sites getting many images).

>>         Once again, digests, net tests (DSN, RCVD, etc.) and header rules
>> are your best defense for now (also, AFAICT, ".png" files appear mostly
>> in spam, JPEG and TIFF files are sent by most camera phones, so maybe a rule
>> on image type would help some, but spammers would quickly adapt, and nearly
>> all image formats have legitimate uses - let's not argue about ".gif"s here).
>> </RESPONSE>

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