SpamAssassin [SEP] programming language
the project became an Apache Software Foundation project and later officially renamed to "Apache SpamAssassin".
The SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release was the first in well over three years, but the developers say that "The project has picked up a new set of developers and is moving forward again."
Methods of usage.
Apache SpamAssassin is a Perl-based application (MailSpamAssassin in CPAN) which is usually used to filter all incoming mail for one or several users. It can be run as a standalone application or as a
also define a list of languages which they want to receive mail in, and Apache SpamAssassin then assigns a higher score to all mails that appear to be written in another language.
Apache SpamAssassin is based on heuristics (pattern recognition), and such software exhibits false positives and false negatives.
Network-based filtering methods.
Apache SpamAssassin also supports:
- DNS-based blacklists and DNS-based whitelists
- Fuzzy-checksum-based spam detection filters such as the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, Vipul's Razor