Intelligent filtering with Qmail, SpamAssassin, and Maildrop

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We’ll show you a custom solution for moving spam to a separate folder and adding new spam signatures to SpamAssassin.

Many email readers offer built-in spam filtering. These mail clients also provide a means for teaching the spam filter new spam signatures. To teach a signature, customers tag an unsolicited message as spam, or move the spam message into a separate folder. Some internally managed mail servers would benefit from the advantages of a user-teachable spam filtering system. This article describes a custom user-teachable filtering system using
Perl, the Maildrop delivery agent, and SpamAssassin.