image based stock spam

[James Seward]

On 11/13/06, Brian <bri at sonicboom.org> wrote:
> ugh, I'm running a 6.2 prerelease.  The package doesn't exist, so I
> build the port, or try to.  The tiff port wont build, so I pkg_add
> that.  It gets a lil further along, the pkgconfig port won't build, I
> pkg_add that.  Then, a little further here comes an x windows install, a
> 31 mb download. I don't want that on my server.  I'll live with it for
> now till something better comes along.

I succeeded in getting FuzzyOCR installed on several 6.1 systems
before it appeared in ports, and documented my method here:

http://jamesoff.net/site/projects/freebsd/fuzzyocr-for-spamassassin-on-freebsd/

Note that it will still pull in Xorg for some libraries, but doesn't
actually install X itself (assuming you remember to declare
WITHOUT_X11).

I note that the libungif port still doesn't appear to have the patch
suggested by FuzzyOCR's author to prevent segfaults.

I can vouch for FuzzyOCR's effectiveness, as the image-based spam was
about the only stuff still getting through my SpamAssassin.