[sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Jorge Asch
I asked about this about ayear ago, with no luck... Is there anyw ay Message Sniffer, could be used to block certaing message, depending on their Charset-Type (in content-type). For example, I would like to block all Windows-1251 (Cyrillic) messages from my server. I know SpamAssasing has such

RE: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Michiel Prins
Can't you use the content filter of your mail server to detect if the charset is used? Met vriendelijke groet, ing. Michiel Prins SOS Small Office Solutions / REJECT Wannepad 27 1066 HW Amsterdam tel. 020-4082627 fax. 020-4082628 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Jorge Asch
Michiel Prins wrote: Can't you use the content filter of your mail server to detect if the charset is used? I've tried, but it's not 100% effective -- Jorge Asch Revilla CONEXION DCR www.conexion.co.cr 800-CONEXION This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (

Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, 10:11:45 AM, Jorge wrote: JA> Michiel Prins wrote: >>Can't you use the content filter of your mail server to detect if the >>charset is used? >> JA> I've tried, but it's not 100% effective I recall the earlier conversations about this. We have not had a lot of

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Scott Fisher
I'll chime in on the subject too. I've finally managed to get the spam in Chinese under control on my system, but for a while I really wished Message Sniffer has language based filters. I.e. Result 40 Chinese Result 41 Cyrillic Result 42 Spanish Result 43 Germain We could then turn on or off th

Re: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Jorge Asch
We could then turn on or off the languages we didn't want. From my foray with dealing with Chinese, it certainly much easier said than done. Chinese was doable, I've had no luck stopping my Spanish spam. Then again, you might be better at it than I. Problem with spanish, is that we use the same we

Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, 3:54:20 PM, Jorge wrote: >>We could then turn on or off the languages we didn't want. >>>From my foray with dealing with Chinese, it certainly much >>>easier said than done. Chinese was doable, I've had no luck >>>stopping my Spanish spam. >>Then again, you might be

Re: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Jorge Asch
Well,... If you really wanted to do it then it could be done. Create a set of rules that look for any of the most common spanish words - especially any that use high-bit characters. With enough of these it should be broad enough to catch most... The trick is to include words that are also not comm

Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, 10:45:37 PM, Jorge wrote: JA> Could a filter be created that will tag as spam any messages that JA> contaning NON-ascii characters? I mean allow only CHRS 1 through 255. JA> I believe this fill filter out all these foreign character sets, and let JA> through regular

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Michiel Prins
Pete, even your message had a chaset header: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I think you'll generate more FP's if you do something like that than FN's you might have now. Aren't there spamassassin config files that detect this spam? Met vriendelijke groet, ing. Michiel Prins SOS Sma