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SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify spam.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.
The spam-identification tactics used include:
* header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
* text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
* blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
* Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc.
It accomplishes filtering without this knowledge, as much as possible.
spamassassin: SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify spam
SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify spam.Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.
The spam-identification tactics used include:
* header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
* text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
* blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
* Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc.
It accomplishes filtering without this knowledge, as much as possible.
| Name: | spamassassin |
| Release: | 4.0.1-1mamba |
| Group: | System/Tools |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 6.11 MB |
| Upstream URL: | https://spamassassin.apache.org/ |
| Build time: | 2024-03-30 08:39:02 |
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | aarch64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | spamassassin spamassassin-debug | spamassassin spamassassin-debug | spamassassin spamassassin-debug |
| Build requirements | glibc-devel [1] libopenssl-devel [1] libperl [1] libz-devel [1] perl[>=2:5.36.0] [1] perl-Compress-Zlib[>=0:1.41] [1] perl-Encode [1] perl-Encode-Detect [1] perl-HTML-Parser [1] perl-IO-Socket-SSL[>=0:0.96] [1] perl-IP-Country [1] perl-Mail-DKIM [1] perl-Mail-DomainKeys [1] perl-Mail-SPF[>=0:2.004] [1] perl-Net-DNS [1] perl-Net-Ident[>=0:1.20] [1] perl-NetAddr-IP [1] perl-Scalar-List-Utils [1] perl-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] libopenssl-devel [1] libperl [1] libz-devel [1] perl[>=2:5.36.0] [1] perl-Compress-Zlib[>=0:1.41] [1] perl-Encode [1] perl-Encode-Detect [1] perl-HTML-Parser [1] perl-IO-Socket-SSL[>=0:0.96] [1] perl-IP-Country [1] perl-Mail-DKIM [1] perl-Mail-DomainKeys [1] perl-Mail-SPF[>=0:2.004] [1] perl-Net-DNS [1] perl-Net-Ident[>=0:1.20] [1] perl-NetAddr-IP [1] perl-Scalar-List-Utils [1] perl-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] libopenssl-devel [1] libperl [1] libz-devel [1] perl[>=2:5.36.0] [1] perl-Compress-Zlib[>=0:1.41] [1] perl-Encode [1] perl-Encode-Detect [1] perl-HTML-Parser [1] perl-IO-Socket-SSL[>=0:0.96] [1] perl-IP-Country [1] perl-Mail-DKIM [1] perl-Mail-DomainKeys [1] perl-Mail-SPF[>=0:2.004] [1] perl-Net-DNS [1] perl-Net-Ident[>=0:1.20] [1] perl-NetAddr-IP [1] perl-Scalar-List-Utils [1] perl-devel [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-30 | Automatic Build System | 4.0.1-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2023-04-18 | Sdk Build System | 4.0.0-2mamba | - rebuilt with perl 5.36.0 |
| 2022-12-17 | autodist | 4.0.0-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2021-04-12 | autodist | 3.4.6-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2021-04-04 | autodist | 3.4.5-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2020-01-31 | autodist | 3.4.4-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2019-12-31 | autodist | 3.4.3-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2018-09-19 | autodist | 3.4.2-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2015-05-09 | autodist | 3.4.1-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2015-04-09 | silvan | 3.4.0-4mamba | - fix spamd path in service file |
