>> Spam Assassin
Status | Synopsis | Example Files | Tests Performed | History

Status
Heavy testing.

Synopsis
SpamAssassin is a program that attempts to flag/filter likely spam mail.

SpamAssassin is an Open Source project available at spamassassin.org

We currently tag all mail using SpamAssassin. Once the mail is tagged you can use procmail or another filter device to move spam to another folder. To use procmail, you can add the following to your .procmailrc near the top (so it gets run before other recipes):

# Move high scoring spam to "probably-spam" folder
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Score: [0-9\.]* .\*\*\*\*\*
probably-spam
This moves mail with at least 5 "*"s to another folder so it can easily be deleted after a quick review or recovered if moved erroneously.

If you use another filtering system besides procmail to filter your mail, then you can use that filtering system to match on the same message headers.

More documentation on Spam Assassin can be found on their website.

Example Files
  • .procmailrc that uses spamassassin results to move messages

Tests Performed
Here's a list of tests that SpamAssassin performs.

History
13 May 2003: Update for MIMEDefang
19 March 2003: Update for SA 2.50
8 November 2002: First cut