# The mail/spambayes port

## spambayes-1.1a4p4 – statistical anti-spam filter

## Description

    SpamBayes is a tool used to segregate unwanted mail (spam) from the mail
    you want (ham). Before SpamBayes can be your spam filter of choice you
    need to train it on representative samples of email you receive. After
    it's been trained, you use SpamBayes to classify new mail according to
    its spamminess and hamminess qualities.

    When SpamBayes filters your email, it compares each unclassified message
    against the information it saved from training and makes a decision
    about whether it thinks the message qualifies as ham or spam, or if it's
    unsure about how to classify the message. It then passes this
    information on to your mail client. Unless you are using IMAP or
    Outlook, this means it adds a header to each message,
    X-SpamBayes-Classification: spam|ham|unsure. You can then filter on this
    header, to file away suspected spam into its own mail folder for
    example. IMAP and Outlook both have the capacity to do the filtering
    themselves, so the header is not necessary.

WWW: http://www.spambayes.org/

Categories:
  lang/python mail

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- lang/python/2.7

## Run dependencies

- lang/python/2.7