From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 14 02:09:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE3D16A412 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:09:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD59443D5A for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:09:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 23661 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2006 02:09:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.105.213 with login) by smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2006 02:09:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9242373; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:09:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4IYyGDyuvorp; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:09:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.20] (laptop.middleearth.mikestammer.com [192.168.0.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779B06F; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:09:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <453046D6.1050100@mikestammer.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:09:26 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "pobox@verysmall.org" References: <200610131712.46822.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> <45303D1E.3040604@verysmall.org> In-Reply-To: <45303D1E.3040604@verysmall.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non English Spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:09:28 -0000 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