Chinese Emails

[Evert Ford]

It's not in there until you add it.

spam.assassin.prefs.conf is a file where you can add customized settings
that change the way spamassassin behaves.  If you add custom scores to this
file, SpamAssassin will use the custom scores instead of it's default
scores.

For this to help you
1. You have to have SpamAssassin installed
2. In MailScanner.conf set 'Use SpamAssassin = yes'
3. On some systems, you may have to tell MailScanner where spamassassin is
located.
4. in spam.assassin.prefs.conf add a line to change the default value of
MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY
for Example
score MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY 3.45
5. re-start MailScanner
for Example
service MailScanner reload

Setting custom scores too high can trigger false positives in spamassassin.
But in your case, unless you had users expecting and wanting e-mail in
chinese, you probably don't need to worry about that

I don't know that this will help you, but it might.  :-)

Evert Ford
Information Analyst
Westone Laboratories
http://www.westone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Richard Sidlin
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:12 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Chinese Emails


I don't see that at all in that conf file.


Richard
>
>
>Are you using SpamAssassin with MailScanner?
>
>SpamAssassin has a score for 'MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY' of 2.45
>(at least in my version). You might consider upping this value
>in spam.assassin.prefs.conf (e.g. 'score MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY
>3' or even higher if that doesn't do it)
>
>Evert Ford
>Information Analyst
>Westone Laboratories
>http://www.westone.com
>
>
>
>
>I put a message up a couple of weeks ago but I am still having
>a problem with emails being received in what looks like
>Chinese. I added a few lines on language settings in the spam
>assassin conf file that someone suggested but that hasn't
>cured it. It's really only coming in on one email address but
>my customer is getting very agitated about it! Anyone help
>please? BTW, it's coming from all sorts of addresses and domains.
>
>
>Richard Sidlin
>
>
>



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