how would I filter out crap like this in spamassassin?

[Red Squirrel]

I keep getting emails with crap like this:

?????, ??????? ????????????? ??????? ???????????, ??????? ???????? ???????, ??????????? ?? ???????? ?????? ? ??????? ?????? ??????
? ?????????:

Random unicode chars, which are not valid ascii. Is there a way I can block this? I'll just make rules for a few individual characters and it should hopefully do the trick.

 

[Crusty]

That's cyrillic.... doesn't seem so random to me but then again I don't understand cyrillic. I believe by default spamassassin treats all languages equally, but there is some customization. I think you can only white-list certain languages to not affect the spam rating, and any other language will increase the spam rating slightly. Only problem is that if spamassassin can't determine what the language is it won't alter the spam rating. I'm not sure on the syntax, but i'm sure it's right in the manual for spamassassin(check their site).

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh I see. And how did the snakes on a plane poll make it into this thread? lol.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Oh I see. And how did the snakes on a plane poll make it into this thread? lol.

Good question.... should PM the Mod account to have them take a look at it

 

[Net]

looks like russian. are you able to make rules to block ip address by country?

 

[Red Squirrel]

No point, the IPs come from all over the globe including USA.