chinese-language email

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jul 28 15:39:42 IST 2006


Check out the "ok_locales" setting in spam.assassin.prefs.conf. It  
may help you.
You probably want
	ok_locales en zh
This will affect the scoring of the *FARAWAY* rules.

On 28 Jul 2006, at 15:22, Daniel Maher wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I’ve found that I get very high Spam scores for Chinese-language  
> emails.  I have analysed many samples, and concluded that  
> SpamAssassin is assigning them many of the “*FARAWAY*” rules -  
> which, from a Western perspective, makes sense.
>
>
>
> I can easily tune those rules down (of course), but I’m curious if  
> anybody else out there has had a similar experience; what did you  
> do to prevent false positives on legitimate non-Latin-character-set  
> emails?
>
>
>
> --
>
>   _
>  °v°  Daniel Maher
> /(_)\ Administrateur Système Unix
>
>  ^ ^  Unix System Administrator
>
>
>
> Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
>
>
>
> -- 
> MailScanner mailing list
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>
> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!

-- 
Julian Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk



-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/attachments/20060728/21f6dfff/attachment.html


More information about the MailScanner mailing list