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], UpgradeTo300 notes

• Conference: There will be three Spam{{`Assassin 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 Spam}}`Assassin.

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
• Help edit our CollaborativeManual (our Wiki).