Re: Filtering unusual ASCII code

Bert Driehuis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Cornelius C. Noack wrote:

> I get lots of spam mail with the characteristic that the text
> (always in the subject field, sometimes even in the sender field,
> and of course in the body as well) is written in the ISO 1022-jp code set, 
> rather than iso-8859-1 (which I assume/hope is the standard).

To pick a minor nit, they are both perfectly valid standards. But if you 
don't want to receive e-mail in Japanese, you can safely discard them.

> Since I never - in over 8 years - ever saw this code set (1022)
> used in any serious mail to me, I would like to filter my incoming
> mail for any that uses the iso 1022-jp code set in the subject field.
>
> So I have 2 related questions:
>    (1) is there any argument against doing that?
>    (2) how do I set the filter accordingly ? I tried looking for the
>        sequence '[iso-1022-jp]'; but as I feared before even trying,
>        that didn't work.

Go into Setup Rules. Use "Add extra header", add "Content-Type". For 
value, add "charset=ISO-2022-JP". Season to taste.

Before using rules to file them away to a spam filter, I would recommend 
to start with an indexcolor rule so that you get familiar and 
comfortable with the rule syntax first.
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