I use WinXP and Outlook Express for my email. I get a lot of spam emails that have the subject line and entire email in Russian or Japanese/Chinese writing.
How do I setup a rule or something in Outlook that tells it to reject any email that has these non-English characters in the subject line or message?
The way I do it in Eudora is to filter for Charsets. Such emails will have a header that says something like
“Charset=koi8”
I am not an Outlook user but if you can filter on unspecified headers in Outlook as you can in Eudora, just trap for mention of the various non-English charsets as you get them.
AHunter3 - would it be possible for you to post your entire list of charsets that you look for?
I’m a Eudora user and these foreign buggers have been driving me crazy for the longest time.
This will nuke most of them:
charset=windows-125 in any header
charset="Windows-125 in any header
charset="Windows-125 in the body
charset=Windows-125 in the body
charset="koi8 in any header
charset=koi8 in any header
charset="koi8 in the body
charset=koi8 in the body
charset="iso in any header AND body contains ;<!
BIG-5 in any header
Body contains “Œ” and body contains “õ”
Body contains “å” and body contains “à” <—— make personality “Suspect”
Body contains “ä” and personality = “Suspect”
The latter handful deal with non-English spam that is written using the conventional character set; you may not wish to implement these, depending on your assessment of the likelihood of getting legitimate email with these symbol combos.