On 08/25/2014 05:17 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using SpamAssassin 4.0.

Oops, I meant 3.4 :)

> 
> Is there a simple way to give a penalty to messages containing non latin
> UTF-8 characters?
> 
> I'm asking because we are receiving quite a lot of Chinese junk mail
> with subjects in Chinese (or more generally non-latin) characters, but:
> 
> - The body is too short for 'ok_languages' to detect and discard the
> unwanted language.
> 
> - The charset is UTF-8, and therefore 'ok_locales en' doesn't mind.
> 
> - I shouldn't blacklist domains such as @163.com (a major source of
> spam) because there is legitimate traffic coming from this domain, for
> example e-mails sent to the LKML, which most of us subscribe to.
> 
> I'm seeing fairly elaborate solutions on the net, but it surprises me
> that an apparently simple problem doesn't have a simple solution yet.

All the rest is true ;)

Michael.



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