What is SpamAssassin Spam Assassin is a free rule-based spam filter which also supports several blacklists, SpamAssassin is a Perl-based application which is usually used to filter all incoming mail for one or several users. It can be used as a standalone application, as a client or as a combination of both. SpamAssassin comes with a large set of rules which are applied to determine whether an email is spam or not. To decide, specific fields within the email header and the email body are typically searched for certain regular expressions, and if these expressions match, the email is assigned a certain score, depending on the test, and several headers are added to the mail. This audio file is paraphrased from a wikipedia contribution.
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