procmail
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Filtering spam for non-English languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean

2006-03-02 14:25:19
On 3/2/06, Komal Tagdiwala -X (ktagdiwa - Saama Technologies at Cisco)
<ktagdiwa(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:

Questions:
1. [...] Will procmail be able to truthfully interpret those words
in that specific language "as-is" or would procmail interpret them as
ASCII character equivalents/junk characters if the host where procmail
is running does not understand that language (Japan, china, etc.) ?

Procmail will almost certainly interpret them byte-by-byte as ascii
equivalents no matter what the capabilities of the host where it is
running.  Procmail is a very old piece of software and incorporates NO
localization or multi-byte language support whatsoever.

2. How do I approach this requirement to implement language-specific
spam filters?

I'd start by looking for external programs that can be called from
procmail.  One place to look might be the language recognition module
that's included with SpamAssassin.


____________________________________________________________
procmail mailing list   Procmail homepage: http://www.procmail.org/
procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>