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diff --git a/mail/bogofilter/DESCR b/mail/bogofilter/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..baa9a60ff37 --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/bogofilter/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham +(non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and +content (body). The program is able to learn from the user's +classifications and corrections. + +The statistical technique is known as the Bayesian technique and +its use for spam was first described by Paul Graham in his article +A Plan For Spam. Gary Robinson, in his weblog Rants, suggests some +refinements for improved discrimination between spam and ham. +Bogofilter's primary algorithm uses the f(w) parameter and the +Fisher inverse chi-square technique that he describes. + +Bogofilter is run by an MDA script to classify an incoming message +as spam or ham (using wordlists stored by BerkeleyDB). Bogofilter +provides processing for plain text and html. It supports multi-part +mime message with decoding of base64, quoted-printable, and +uuencoded text and ignores attachments, such as images. + +Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, +Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, ... |