Blocking email in foreign alphabet

[Guest]

I am receiving a lot of emails in a foreign (cyrillic I think) alphabet.
How do I block them? I really would like to toss them before I download but
my ISP has no way to do this. Can I get rid of them in Outlook 2003? They
come from various "senders" and don't seem to have any consistent subject
word that I can key on to write a rule.

 

[Vanguard]

I am receiving a lot of emails in a foreign (cyrillic I think)
alphabet.
How do I block them? I really would like to toss them before I
download but
my ISP has no way to do this. Can I get rid of them in Outlook 2003?
They
come from various "senders" and don't seem to have any consistent
subject
word that I can key on to write a rule.

Start looking at better anti-spam solutions that what Microsoft provided
within Outlook. SpamPal is very good, and it has country-specific
blocking (i.e., if you don't expect e-mails from other countries or
don't want them then this usually works to get rid of many of those).

The DNS blacklists used by SpamPal will probably do you best for spam
filtering regardless of which country from which the spam originates.
Just be careful which blacklists you enable in SpamPal. Never use SPEWS
(it rates spamminess of entire domains, not really for specific
senders). SORBS is too slow to update their blacklist, so many are out
of date. Spamhaus, CBL, NJABL are good ones. I also use SpamCop but it
is considered more aggressive (yet I've never got a false positive
because of using it).

SpamPal also has free plug-ins, like Bayesian filter and MXblocking
(getting rid of e-mails sent from dynamically IP assigned hosts, like
dial-up and cable/DSL users spewing out spam from their infected PCs
running mailer trojans). I used to use the HTML-Modify plug-in but it
is too old and generates too many false positives, and e-mail clients,
if properly configured, aren't susceptible to many of the spam tricks
that this plug-in triggers on.

SpamPal runs as a local proxy so any e-mail client can use it. SpamPal
does absolutely nothing with your e-mails. What you do with suspect
mails is up to you by defining a rule that uses the header or tag that
SpamPal adds to the suspect mails. It simply identifies suspect mails.
It's up to you to decide via rules in your e-mail client what to do with
them.

SpamPal is free. It is not demoware, trialware, crippleware, or
lureware. They have a user forum to ask questions.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You can try this method, which works very well:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24362&cid=2641548

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After furious head scratching, SteveK asked:

| I am receiving a lot of emails in a foreign (cyrillic I think)
| alphabet. How do I block them? I really would like to toss them
| before I download but my ISP has no way to do this. Can I get rid of
| them in Outlook 2003? They come from various "senders" and don't
| seem to have any consistent subject word that I can key on to write a
| rule.

 

[Pat Willener]

You could check the encoding (charset = KOI8-R -or- Windows-1251).