On Friday 13 October 2006 19:09, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I'm getting a ton of spam every day that comes from China, Japan and > > Korea. Spam Assassin completely ignores it because it has all non-english > > characters and slows kmail to a crawl loading. Is there a way to filter > > on non-english either using Spam Assassin or procmail? > > > > Suggestions would be appreciated. > > Install the IP::Country perl modules (port: net/p5-IP-Country) and > uncomment the lines in /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre to > enable Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry plugin, which causes > the Bayesian filters to learn which countries relay most spam to you. > > Look for the discussion on 'ok_locales' in the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf > perldoc. Set that to 'en' and messages in character sets other than > anything based on the Latin (and possibly Greek) alphabet will get a > higher spam score. You can put that into > /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf for a site-wide effect or into > per-user ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs config files.
Thank you. Your suggestion appears to be working. I was getting 75 or more of non-english spam daily and It was becoming a real pain in the backside to deal with. Now spamassassin is tagging those with a higher score and procmail is sending them to /dev/null. Looking at the log, all my "normal" mail (like this list) are getting through. Hopefully spam will now be down to a tolerable level. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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