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diff --git a/mail/spamassassin/DESCR b/mail/spamassassin/DESCR index 3d60fec1ee9..8836f99fa58 100644 --- a/mail/spamassassin/DESCR +++ b/mail/spamassassin/DESCR @@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ 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 spam-identification tactics used include header analysis, text +analysis, blacklists and Razor. 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. +filter. +In addition, there is "spamd", a persistently running daemonized +version of the command line tool "spamassassin". Together with the small +client "spamc" this allows processing of large volumes of mail without the +cost of starting a perl interpreter for each one. + +SpamAssassin does not deliver mail to the users mailbox. You need a +different program (procmail is recommended) for local mail delivery. |