[Rspamd-Users] Block emails with Chinese and Cyrillic characters in the subject
Andreas
rspamd at linuxmaker.com
Wed Aug 6 14:20:57 UTC 2025
Hello Steve and Ged.,
thank you for your contributions; they're both helping me understand things
further. I'll try Steve's suggestion in particular. Then we'll see if these
emails are blocked.
Best regards
Andreas
> Here's what I do.
>
> X_LOCAL_CONTENT_BL {
> type = "content";
> filter = "full";
> map = "$LOCAL_CONFDIR/local.d/maps.d/blacklist/content.map";
> description = "Local content blacklist.";
> regexp = true;
> score = 10000;
> }
>
>
> Here are the relevant regexps in
> $LOCAL_CONFDIR/local.d/maps.d/blacklist/content.map:
>
> # Non-Western charsets
> #
> /(=\?|charset\=)big5/i # Big5
> /(=\?|charset\=)euc-kr/i # Extended Unix Code -- Korean
>
> /(=\?|charset\=)windows-1251/i # Windows 1251
> /(=\?|charset\=)koi8-r/i # Cyrillic
> /(=\?|charset\=)gb2312/i # Chinese
> /(=\?|charset\=)ks_c_5601-1987/i # Hangul (Korean)
>
>
> Big5 and gb2312 are traditional & simplified Chinese, respectively. Here's
> the complete list:
>
> https://www.lsoft.com/manuals/maestro/4.0/htmlhelp/data%20administrator/Char
> acterSets.html
>
> Note that this DOES NOT block UTF-8...which can also contain Asian
> characters...so this method is not foolproof. However, I don't get a lot
> of this so the above has worked for me for several years.
>
> I use this map to block any kind of unwanted content. For example:
>
> /.*norton\s*(360)?.*/i # Mentions Norton (360)
> /.*m(a)?c\s*afee.*/i # Mentions McAfee
> /.*geek\s*squad.*/i # Mentions Geek Squad
> /.*m(icro)?((\-|\s)*)?s(oft)?\s*office.*/i # Mentions Microsoft Office
> /.*office\s*365.*/i # Mentions Office 365
>
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Regards,
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