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Uses buildlink2 and module.mk. Some perl scripts for rule developers (in PREFIX/share/doc/spamassassin/{masses,tools}/) and a small SpamAssassin logo (PREFIX/share/doc/spamassassin/html/) are now included. New netbsd_lists.cf file to reduce false positives on NetBSD lists (so far, only some rules for netbsd-bugs). Changes: - bug fixes - new, better scores (intensive testing was done to improve on 2.40 and 2.41) - netbsd rc.d script works now with NetBSD 1.5 and 1.6 - management of addresses in the automatic whitlist now easier with dedicated options (--add-addr-to-whitelist, --remove-addr-from-whitelist)
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SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam.
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Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail
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headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited
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commercial email.
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Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for
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later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
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The spam-identification tactics used include header analysis, text
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analysis, blacklists and Razor.
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The distribution provides a command line tool to perform filtering,
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along with Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of perl modules which implement a
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Mail::Audit plugin, allowing SpamAssassin to be used in a Mail::Audit
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filter.
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In addition, there is "spamd", a persistently running daemonized
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version of the command line tool "spamassassin". Together with the small
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client "spamc" this allows processing of large volumes of mail without the
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cost of starting a perl interpreter for each one.
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SpamAssassin does not deliver mail to the users mailbox. You need a
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different program (procmail is recommended) for local mail delivery.
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