On Friday 25 March 2005 05:06 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail?
If SpamAssassin doesn't work (set up a filter that does "pipe through" spamassassin, make sure "stop processing here" is unchecked, and then add another filter *after* the "pipe filter" to look as the X-Spam-Status header), then your subsequent Google/etc. searches might have better luck using the term "419" than "Nigerian spam". Those are called 419 scams because of the section of the Nigerian laws that applies. --Danny, who personally would use fetchmail + procmail to call spamassin, rather than kMail, but that's largely just a personal preference