Spamassasin filter foreign language emails

nisamudeen97

• June 15, 2017 07:46

Hi, I would like to do global filtering of foreign language emails using Spamassasin. I would like to reject emails especially Chinese. I have gone through different docs regarding the same. Below are the ones which I have followed for testing. Meanwhile I could see non are helpful. Still I receive Chinese emails. I have tried to debug the case and found the below error in "/var/log/maillog". Look to have some expert advise on this. lifewire.com/spamassassin-foreign-language-spam-1166250 weavweb.net/2015/10/11/cpanel-email-filtering-to-stop-chinese-or-non-english-character-spam/ config: failed to parse, now a plugin, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf": ok_languages en de la th sv

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  cPanelMichael

  • June 15, 2017 12:59

  Hello, Could you let us know the specific changes you made to the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file? Thank you.

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  nisamudeen97

  • June 15, 2017 13:04

  Hi, I just added the below line as extra in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, rest of the things are default. ok_languages en

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  cPanelMichael

  • June 15, 2017 14:09

  Hello, You'd need to also enable the TextCat plugin referenced at: ImproveAccuracy - Spamassassin Wiki To do so, add the following line to the /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre file:
  loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::TextCat
  Then, restart SpamAssassin via:
  /scripts/restartsrv_spamd
  Thank you.

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  nisamudeen97

  • June 15, 2017 14:47

  Hi, Thanks for the update. I have done the same, but still emails with Chinese are coming and it is reaching inbox.

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  cPanelMichael

  • June 15, 2017 15:00

  Hello, Feel free to open a support ticket using the link in my signature if you'd like us to take a closer look. You can post the ticket number here so we can update this thread with the outcome. Thank you.

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  nisamudeen97

  • June 15, 2017 15:24

  Hi, Ticket is opened for the same. Ticket number # 8605173

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  cPanelMichael

  • June 16, 2017 17:46

  Hello, To update, a symbolic link was created using the below commands to ensure the TextCat SpamAssassin plugin worked as expected:
  cd /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004001/ ln -s updates_spamassassin_org/languages languages
  Thank you.

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  nisamudeen97

  • June 19, 2017 09:44

  Meanwhile it is not working still. Chinese emails are coming as usual to inbox. I have updated the same in ticket.

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  keat63

  • June 22, 2017 13:35

  I once wrote a filter rule to block chinese emails. Take a look at all the chinese emails that your recieve and you'll start to spot a few common chinese characters. I copied and pasted a few in to a global filter rule, they almost stopped over night.

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