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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:44:44 -0800 (PST)
From: John Hardin <jhardin@impsec.org>
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Yves Goergen wrote:

> for a few months I'm getting lots of Polish spam to one of my e-mail 
> addresses, sometimes a dozen per day. I have no idea what it's telling me, I 
> don't understand a single word.
>
> SpamAssassin doesn't seem to be too successful in filtering them out.
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to stop that? Are there special rule sets for 
> that?

If you don't have any users who speak Polish, then Bayes would do a good 
job catching them.

I get a lot of spam in Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish and it all scores 
BAYES_999.

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