UsingSpamAssassin

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.

If you already use SpamAssassin:

Losing emails?
- 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.
- IntegratedInMta: built into the whole mail-delivery process in the Mail Transfer Agent (sendmail, Exim, Postfix, etc.)
- UsingSiteWide: more about using SpamAssassin site-wide
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.
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.