[clug] Spam translation

[Ben Nizette]

On 17/08/2010, at 12:18 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> 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.

Sounds fair and [1] gives the details.  I might try that for a bit - we deal a lot with suppliers in Taiwan and while the communications themselves are always English there are often sigs etc in Chinese.  Hopefully that kind of extension doesn't throw problems in there.

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

Thanks!
	--Ben.

> 
>       Daniel

[1] http://email.about.com/cs/spamassassintips/qt/et032504.htm