Awesome, thanks for the tip.
Any guess how this affects messages with mixed character sets? One of
our users definitely emails with Chinese vendors. I'm sure they
correspond in English, but I'm guessing the Chinese folks might have
Chinese characters in their signature line or some such.
Thanks.
SpamAssassin has an ok_locales thing that allows you to specify basically
languages you want to accept. But it has problems:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4078
I don't believe anybody has created rules to match these kinds of spams.
A big part of the problem is lacking examples of non-English non-spam
to verify the rules don't hit them.
So, you should probably try using ok_locales, and if it doesn't work,
create your own rules to match these spams, if you can find good common
patterns that don't seem likely to match non-spams (or match all Chinese
email if that's what you want). And please share what works.
ok_locales is defined in the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf main page which can
also be found here:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.3.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html
Hmm, ok_locales may actually work on Chinese, I don't see examples of
problems with that language.
On 08/21, Adam Moffett wrote:
I have a user who seems to get 4-5 messages per day with Chinese
characters for the subject and body. They come from a variety of
domains and IP's so I guess she somehow got onto a list used to spam
Chinese speaking people.
If I paste them into Google Translate they seem to be roughly the
same kind of junk as our English spam: "work from home", "buy our
drugs", etc. The handful that I looked at closely had scores of
2.0-3.0.
Are there existing SpamAssassin rules that work on non english
characters? Is there maybe something extra I should enable or
install that would score these higher?
I'm sorry if it's an ignorant question, but the issue hasn't really
come up here before.
Thanks.
