Multilingual Spam

[Kelson <ke...@speed.net>]

Having just received my first Nigerian spam in French, I'm thinking
about language settings again.  In 2.6x, language-specific rules only
apply when SA is run under that locale -- but if it's tied in at the
server level (in our case, through MIMEDefang), it's always going to be
run under the same locale.  And since we're an ISP, we can't rely on 
ok_languages or ok_locales, since users can speak all kinds of different 
languages.

I assume there is some sort of language-guessing function, or 
ok_languages wouldn't exist.  Is there a way for this to trigger running 
language-specific rulesets?  Or perhaps to just run all ruleseets, 
regardless of language?

-- 
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>

Re: Multilingual Spam

[Mariano Absatz <el...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:11:53 -0700, Kelson <ke...@speed.net> wrote:
> Having just received my first Nigerian spam in French, I'm thinking
> about language settings again.  In 2.6x, language-specific rules only
> apply when SA is run under that locale -- but if it's tied in at the
> server level (in our case, through MIMEDefang), it's always going to be
> run under the same locale.  And since we're an ISP, we can't rely on
> ok_languages or ok_locales, since users can speak all kinds of different
> languages.
> 
> I assume there is some sort of language-guessing function, or
> ok_languages wouldn't exist.  Is there a way for this to trigger running
> language-specific rulesets?  Or perhaps to just run all ruleseets,
> regardless of language?
I had the same problem... I erased the 'lang xxx' from all language
specific rules... and wanted to post something like this here... even
when you DO control your locale settings, it doesn't mean spammers in
languages other than yours will be so kind as to not spam you in their
language...

I receive tons of spams in korean and chinese, and something in German
and French now and then (I also receive tons in English and Spanish,
but I live in a Spanish-speaking country and English is 'THE'
international language for spam).

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