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author | hubertf <hubertf> | 2002-08-26 15:54:28 +0000 |
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committer | hubertf <hubertf> | 2002-08-26 15:54:28 +0000 |
commit | 4e7e50c816f1a8ef8f9f9f6cb54bfd75332cd0af (patch) | |
tree | a72e75e60cb65991978c3db8bb65a62caf468c18 /mail/spamassassin/DESCR | |
parent | ab0f5c1e29986ca0d1fbe2f4db1b57d7a13cbf67 (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-4e7e50c816f1a8ef8f9f9f6cb54bfd75332cd0af.tar.gz |
Rename pkgsrc/mail/p5-Mail-Spamassassin to pkgsrc/mail/spamassassin.
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diff --git a/mail/spamassassin/DESCR b/mail/spamassassin/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3d60fec1ee9 --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/spamassassin/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +SpamAssassin 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, text +analysis, blacklists and Razor. + +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. + +The distribution provides a command line tool to perform filtering, +along with Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of perl modules which implement a +Mail::Audit plugin, allowing SpamAssassin to be used in a Mail::Audit +filter, or (possibly at some point) in a spam-protection proxy POP/IMAP +server. |