Problems with Asian Spam

[stefan]

 <dhottinger <at> harrisonburg.k12.va.us> writes:

> 
> Arrrrgh, I refuse to live with spam.  Must be an answer.  The one  
> thats got me concerned are the spams with the inline images and the  
> random text behind the images.  Bogofilter doesnt seem to catch those.  
>   Furthermore, Im not so sure that the random text (usually snippets  
> from some book) seem to be skewing my wordlist.  Im getting a few more  
> messages caught as spam that shouldnt be.  Although all of these are  
> ticket reminders, etc.  Which shouldnt be sent to my mail server by  
> users anyway.  If anyone has a good way to kill these spam messages  
> that would be great.
> 

I agree with you. But I found that bogofilter is very good in finding spam mails
even if it is text from books or worse: apparently meaningful text regarding C++
programming and FireWire issues. bogofilter found this spam immediatly while I
needed to read the text twice.

At least I have no idea how to get rid of the not translateable Asian spam.

> ... Im getting a few more messages caught as spam that shouldnt be ...

You should train them as ham, this works fine (bogofilter -n). If these "ticket
reminders" are not wanted, you may use a .procmailrc for filtering them to
/dev/null.

Stefan