Re: UTF-8 support / Perl regex \p{} unicode character property in 4.0.x

On Wed, 25 Mar 2026, Jona MÃŒller wrote:

> How can I achieve that in 4.0.x?

Take a look at the ruleset 25_replace.cf

   https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/rules/25_replace.cf

SA has a "replace tags" mechanism for essentially tokenizing common RE 
"phrases".

> we use SA together with amavis and postfix. As a lot of spam and scam 
> mail has emojis in the subject and more importantly the friendly from we 
> use custom rules to assign a bit of score to it (a lot of legitimate 
> mail has emojis these days so there is no emoji => spam causation).

Are you looking for _specific_ emojis? Or just any?

I will take a look at adding an <EMOJI> tag that covers everything, then 
you could write a simple subject header rules looking for any emoji, or a 
sequence of them.

Targeting *specific* emojis becomes more difficult and may not be worth 
the effort, though I do notice certain ones (like the eggplant) appear in 
certain types of spam and are unlikely in ham...


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