On Friday 15 August 2014 at 13:05:26 (EU time), Timothy Murphy wrote:

> 1) What is the simplest way to reject mail in chinese, russian
> and turkish?

http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#language_options

> 2) I get some email wrongly marked spam - always from the same site.
> I'm tried marking this as ham (and running "sa-learn --ham")
> but this has surprisingly little effect.

The process is statistical.  What do you mean by "surprisingly little"?  What 
scores are you seeing assigned to the emails before and after doing this 
training?

> 3) Bizarrely, I seem to be getting a lot of spam from Brazil -
> at least I assume that is where *.br lives?

Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-
level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains

> I guess 1% of email from Brazil might be legit,
> but losing it is a small sacrifice.
> I guess I could look at the sites - there may be only a couple.
> What is the easiest way to define email from a given site as spam?

http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#whitelist_and_blacklist_options

Hope that helps,


Regards,


Antony.

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