Support for other languages

[Steen, Glenn]

Mark Campbell wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I'm having more and more legitimate emails from countries that are non
> English speaking based, such as the following
> 
> pts rule name              description
> ---- ----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------
>  0.0 SUB_HELLO              Subject starts with "Hello"
>  1.7 MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID      Message-Id for external message added
> locally
>  3.2 CHARSET_FARAWAY_HEADER A foreign language charset used in headers
>  0.1 HTML_80_90             BODY: Message is 80 HTML
>  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
>  0.1 HTML_TAG_EXIST_TBODY   BODY: HTML has "tbody" tag
> -2.6 BAYES_00               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
>                             [score: 0.0000]
>  0.3 MIME_BASE64_TEXT       RAW: Message text disguised using base64
> encoding
>  0.1 MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER  Message-Id was added by a relay
>  0.5 HTML_CHARSET_FARAWAY   A foreign language charset used in HTML
> markup
>  2.5 MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY   MIME character set indicates foreign
> language
> 
> 
> Is there a way to specify a list of valid languages or should I just
> configure spamassassin to set the FARAWAY rules to a lower spam score?
> 
> Thanks for any advise.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Mark Campbell

If they cannot be bothered to even add a valid message ID header, why
should you care?-):-)

You could of course "disable" the FARAWAY rules by settin the score to
0,
or "whitelist" 'em (either in MS proper, or by identifying the senders
and adding a rule with a negative score for 'em).

-- Glenn

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