On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:33, Robert wrote: > > having built many mailservers i will be ok in general yet what i am really > looking for now is how is everyone here filtering "spam in languages other > than English"... most of the spam i get is in Spanish. > > i am having a hard time finding it googling (other than Bayesian filters) > and i just need some searching help or direction to find so i can study up > please? One option that will eliminate 95%+ spam that is available for most MTAs is greylisting. The combination of greylisting and spamassassin blocks nearly 100% of spam. The added benefit of greylisting is that your system's load won't be pushed due to overhead of running spamassassin on the vast majority of messages. I implemented milter-greylist/sendmail/procmail on a system for a small company and reduced the number of spam messages from around 8000 a day to about 10 or 15 a day, and those were caught by spamassassin. You might want to check out http://www.rulesemporium.com/ they have a number of very good rules sets and possibly some examples that may help you write specific rules for the spam you are receiving.