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How you can use Spam Assassin

SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox. It has been used by nearly every known mail delivery system. Here are some of the ways SpamAssassin can be used:

If you already use SpamAssassin:

• Losing emails?

  • Wiki Markup
    [FalsePositives]: Is your \["Ham"\] being matched incorrectly as \["Spam"\]

  • AutoWhitelist: The SpamAssassin AWL
• Spam getting through?
  • BayesInSpamAssassin: Training the Bayesian learner
  • WritingRules: How to write and test new rules
  • Third party "drop-in" CustomRulesets and CustomPlugins
    
• General info:
  • FrequentlyAskedQuestions: General questions, not errors (see FixingErrors for that)
  • FixingErrors: Things that can go wrong and how to fix them
    

If you want to start using SpamAssassin:

• I run a mail server:
  • UsedViaProcmail: Using Procmail with SpamAssassin
  • Make use of other anti-spam projects: DnsBlocklists (using DNSBLs), UsingDcc, UsingRazor, and UsingPyzor.
  If you run a mail server:
  • IntegratedInMta: built into the whole mail-delivery process in the Mail Transfer Agent (sendmail, Exim, Postfix, etc.)
  • UsingSiteWide: more about using SpamAssassin site-wide
    
• If you I have an account on a server:
  • SingleUserUnixInstall: single-user installation on a typical Unix account
  • UsedViaProcmail: run from the traditional UNIX .procmailrc file
  • MailProxy: as a proxy server
  • Run against a RemoteImapFolder
    
• Can I just buy something?
  • Sure. Many CommercialProducts use SpamAssassin internally.
    
• Using Spam Assassin Can I use SpamAssassin on other systems:
  • On Mac OS X: UsingOnOsx
  • On Windows: UsingOnWindows
    

Want to learn more?

• Questions? Questions about using SpamAssassin can be asked on the SpamAssassin-Users MailingLists. However, please note AskingAboutIntegrations.
• BooksAboutSpamAssassin: Published books that discuss SpamAssassin.
  
  

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