NAME

Mail::SpamFilter - Provides a convenient interface for several spam filters.

SYNOPSIS

use Mail::SpamFilter ':all';

($header, $body) = extract_header($msg);

# To run all the filters on $msg:
@filters = @Mail::SpamFilter::FILTER_LIST;
($tags, $header, $body) = filter_message($msg, @filters);
print $$tags{spamassasin};

# To extract the spam headers from an already filtered message:
($tags, $header, $body)
  = extract_spam_headers($filtered_msg, @filters);
print $$tags{spamassasin};

# Count the votes and list the voters in a set of extracted tags:
($spam_count, $good_count, $spam_voters, $good_voters)
  = count_votes($tags, @filters);

# If this messsage was a spam, then report it to
# the good voters for training:
report_message("spam", $msg, @{$good_voters});

# If this messsage was a good message, then report it to
# the spam voters for training:
report_message("good", $msg, @{$spam_voters});

DESCRIPTION

Provides functions to filter messages using several spam filters and count how many filters consider the message to be spam.

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

http://www.spamassassin.org/ SpamAssassin

http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ The CRM114 Discriminator

http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ Nuclear Elephant: DSPAM

http://wpbl.pc9.org/ WPBL - Weighted Private Block List

http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamprobe/ SpamProbe

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/ Bogofilter

http://www.spamhaus.org/ZEN/ Spamhaus ZEN DNSBL

AUTHOR

Martin Ward, <Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Martin Ward

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.