[clug] Spam translation

[Daniel Pittman]

Ben Nizette <bn at niasdigital.com> writes:

> Over the last few months SpamAssassin has been working really well on the
> company computers.  The only major genre of spam still making it through is
> in foreign languages, mainly French and Chinese.  In fact more than 95% of
> received spam is now in one of those two languages.
>
> Does anyone know of extensions to SpamAssassin or other anti-spam frameworks
> which, for example, run the email through a Babelfish equivalent before
> applying the other rules?

No.  On the other hand, if you don't do legitimate business with those
countries you can configure SpamAssassin to score up their "spam factor" based
on the language used.

This is, generally speaking, the most sensible approach to that problem.

        Daniel
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