Phishing attempt wasn't blocked by SpamAssassin

Hello! Our customer received email which contained invitation to confirm personal information at the online bank. Link was hidden using following trick: http://www.designlaboratory.jp/board/hg.html";>https://www.ebank.hsbc.com.hk/servlet/onlinehsbc.jsp It was a big surprise for me that there're

Re: Custom Russian ruleset?

Pierre Thomson wrote: Well... Bayes certainly works on Russian words. Most Russian spam is correctly recognized by my Bayes-enabled SpamAssassin. If you DON'T want any Russian email you can make a rule for the Cyrillic character set, but to write custom rules against Russian spam would be diff

Re: Custom Russian ruleset?

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Hi! I was wondering whether someone has a custom Russian ruleset? I have a user who reads Russian, and allthough I don't think he does write with any Russians now, I don't want to block the language. There is a significant amount of Russian spam getting through though, so

Re: Spellcheck plugin?

Loren Wilton wrote: I'm wondering, would it be useful to have a plugin that penalizes messages with many spelling mistakes? This might help against all those creative ways of spelling out what the spammer wants to sell. I don't know that anyone has worked on specifically what you are thinking of,

Re: Cyrillic chars in rule regex ?

Shane Metler wrote: Hi there, Has anyone constructed Spam Assassin rules that can match Cyrillic characters? I know this is more of a RegEx question, but I have been very unsuccessful at finding out how to match Cyrillic characters in Spam Assassin rules. Can anyone

Please help me understand this snippet of SA code

Hello! What does this code from HTML.pm module: if ($self->{last_text}) { # ideas discarded since they would be easy to evade: # 1. using \w or [A-Za-z] instead of \S or non-punctuation # 2. exempting certain tags if ($text =~ /^[^\s\x21-\x2f\x3a-\x40\x5b-\x60\x7b-\x7e]/s &&