How do I set my email to filter any email with non-Roman characters

[Jim Higson]

On Sunday 29 May 2005 03:31, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am So, den 29.05.2005 schrieb A. Rick Anderson um 1:58:
> >>How do I set my email to filter any email with non-Roman characters.
> >>That would eliminate about 30% of my spam.  I am running with the
> >>Mozilla client (it gets yum'ed ever night).
> >
> > You may add a filter rule for checking the "Content-Type" mail header
> > for any of "ks_c_5601-1987 | iso-2022-kr | euc-kr | GB2312" (asian
> > charsets) and move those mails to a spam folder.
>
> It is a good idea.  However, when I view the mail source, all the
> content types from both Asian and Russian sources are set to:
>
> Content-Type: text/html;
> 	charset="us-ascii"
>
> Therefore, these will still get past any Mozilla filters.
>
> --
> A. Rick Anderson

SpamAssassin allows filtering on language or characters used, that might pick 
this up.

-- 
Jim