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p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-4.0.2

mailfilter to identify and mark spam

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Description

SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. Using its rule base and optional network sources (DNS-based lists and collaborative spam-tracking databases), it carries out a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email. Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application. SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc. It accomplishes filtering without this knowledge, as much as possible. Read ${PREFIX}/share/doc/SpamAssassin/README for further installation instructions. Or if you are in a hurry you can read: ${PREFIX}/share/doc/SpamAssassin/OpenBSD-SpamAssassin-mini-howto.html The SpamAssassin Wiki is available at <http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin> and contains up-to-date information on configuring SpamAssassin, and using some of the more advanced features of it.

Package information

Ports path
mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Giovanni Bechis <giovanni@openbsd.org>
Categories
mail, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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