SpamAssassin (SA) is a neat Email filter that tags incoming mails it thinks are spam. Its aggressiveness can be configured, and it comes with a decent default level. It's written in Perl and is licensed under the same license as Perl itself.

You can use SA in many places:

• in your MailClient
• on your mail delivery machine, running it from procmail(1)
• on your mail server, using your MTA's integration, or a program like MailScanner or amavisd-new to run it on all your incoming mail.

SpamAssassin doesn't just have to use local static rules. It can run many tests on the Internet:

• VipulsRazor, a distributed spam detection system
• SURBL, the Spam URI realtime blacklist
• DCC (Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse) (detecting spam based on comparing checksums of messages received all across the InterNet)

See our SpamAssassinNotes page for help using SA.

(Note, this product will assassinate Spam, but will leave SPAM well alone!)

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