Audience
Businesses in need of an open-source spam filter platform
About SpamAssassin
Welcome to the home page for the open-source Apache SpamAssassin Project. Apache SpamAssassin is the #1 Open Source anti-spam platform giving system administrators a filter to classify email and block spam (unsolicited bulk email). It uses a robust scoring framework and plug-ins to integrate a wide range of advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on email headers and body text including text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. Looking for tips to improve your existing installation? Click here for a variety of topics in our Wiki that might help. SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one aspect which they can craft their messages to work around.