Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:09:26 -0500 From: Eric <eric@mikestammer.com> To: "pobox@verysmall.org" <pobox@verysmall.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non English Spam Message-ID: <453046D6.1050100@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <45303D1E.3040604@verysmall.org> References: <200610131712.46822.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> <45303D1E.3040604@verysmall.org>
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pobox@verysmall.org 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. >> >> Beech > > May be it is not exactly an answer to your question, but we started to > use real time black lists with postfix and it works pretty well (though > some spam comes through). There have been no complains of false positive > so far (almost 6 months). > > I noticed how well it works when we switched it off today for 2 hours > because of an error and the anti-virus programs started to jump. > > And we get very seldom non-English spam. > > I do not know if procmail has something similar. > i found postgrey to be a fantastic addition to my antispam arsenal. check it out. it really works well Eric
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