Hello Michael! On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 5:27:44 PM you wrote:
> I have been receiving an increasing amount of mail or spam (I suspect > the latter) written in non-English characters. I gather they are HTML mail with eastern characters - usually of the Far Asian variant, sometimes Russian. They seem to be widespread at the moment. All in all spam and junk mail have risen sharply in number the last few weeks. For years the general spam filters of GMX worked very well, but now the let through more than 10 messages of that sort per day. compared to one or two a month before. > I'm not being xenophobic Yes, you are, and that is quite natural. As long as it doesn't get unhealthy (racist) it's alright. ;-) > Is there any setting in The Bat! to allow me to block or filter > messages which are written in non-English characters? Since I don't > know what the words are, I have no idea how to make a filter. Until now I have only one spam filter using the typical badly formed subjects (lots of Dollar signs and such). I've not come around to make up a filter for those new breed (Asian, Russian or the ones using "re: order" as a subject), but I think it should be easy by using the headers. Surely the used character set or even language is put in there, just look for it and filter for it. That shuld work as long as you don't receive legitimate mail in these sets/languages. -- Dierk Haasis http://www.Write4U.de http://Interest.Write4U.de/pongo PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys The Bat 1.54 Beta/47 on Windows 95 4.0 1212 C When you lose, don't lose the lesson. -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
