Paolo Cravero as2594 writes: > > Gustafson, Tim wrote: > > > Could SpamAssassin benefit from a filter that would actually check the > > spelling of the text parts of the message, and if misspelled words > > exceeds, for example, 50%, then we can add a few points to the SPAM > > score? I'm not sure how to begin coding this, but I think it should be > > pretty easy (using pSpell or aSpell or something) and I think it would > > be a very useful tool. > > And how would you deal with messages in other languages? Over here 99% > of messages in English are spam! AFAIK there's no language indicator in > email messages.
Don't know if anybody's really interested in the details, but I can tell you that you can make a fairly reliable guess as to language. One of the guys at work here fires back an automated message in the language of the sender (the choices here are French and English, but there's no particular reason Italian couldn't be handled)
