SpamAssassin Wiki

SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify spam, also known as unsolicited commercial email (UCE). SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases.

What's new?

• New Release On Wednesday, 2004-09-22, SpamAssassin 3.0.0 was released. [http://issues.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=users@spamassassin.apache.org&msgNo=16202 Release Announcement] [http://issues.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=users@spamassassin.apache.org&msgNo=16203 Release Notes and Information]

• Conference: There will be three SpamAssassin sessions at [http://www.apachecon.com/ ApacheCon 2004] in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on 13-17 November 2004. There will be one 3-hour tutorial and two 1-hour talks on SpamAssassin.

Learning about SpamAssassin:

• Setting up SpamAssassin...
  • UsingSpamAssassin: Ways to use SpamAssassin, tools etc.
  • UsedViaProcmail: Using Procmail with SpamAssassin
  • Make use of other anti-spam projects: DnsBlocklists (using DNSBLs), UsingDcc, UsingRazor, and UsingPyzor.
  • FrequentlyAskedQuestions: General questions, not errors (see FixingErrors for that)
  • FixingErrors: Things that can go wrong and how to fix them
• Losing emails?

  • FalsePositives: ["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
  • CustomRulesets: Third party "drop-in" addon rulesets
  • CustomPlugins: Third party "drop-in" plugins for SpamAssassin 3.0 and later
• Learn more:
  • BooksAboutSpamAssassin: Published books that discuss SpamAssassin.

  • [http://spamassassin.org/ The Website]: All the static stuff
    

Get Involved:

• WeLoveVolunteers: areas where you can help improve SpamAssassin
• ThirdPartySoftware for SpamAssassin
• DevelopmentStuff: Stuff of interest to developers and those interested in the development process
• Edit these Wiki pages (see notes below).
  

Our Collaborative Manual

The SpamAssassin community has created this collaborative documentation using a Wiki. These pages are edited by the community, and replace the previous FAQ.

Editing pages: To edit pages, please create a user profile for yourself using the UserPreferences page. (You need to register because it helps us prevent wiki spam.) Also, please make yourself a HomePage with your email address on it so you can be contacted if needs be. Once registered, you can edit any page by pressing the link at the bottom of the page.

Capitalized words joined together form a WikiName, which hyperlinks to another page. The highlighted title searches for all pages that link to the current page. Pages which do not yet exist are linked with a question mark: just follow the link and you can add a definition.

About Wiki's: A WikiWikiWeb is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on easy access to and modification of information. This one runs on MoinMoin. To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about MoinMoin:WhyWikiWorks and the MoinMoin:WikiNature. Also, consult the MoinMoin:WikiWikiWebFaq.

Interesting starting points:

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
• HelpForBeginners: to get you going
• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways.