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NAME

6       spamassassin - simple front-end filtering script for SpamAssassin
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SYNOPSIS

9       spamassassin [options] [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
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11       spamassassin -d [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
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13       spamassassin -r [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
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15       spamassassin -k [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
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17       spamassassin -W|-R [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
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19       Options:
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21        -L, --local                       Local tests only (no online tests)
22        -r, --report                      Report message as spam
23        -k, --revoke                      Revoke message as spam
24        -d, --remove-markup               Remove spam reports from a message
25        -C path, --configpath=path, --config-file=path
26                                          Path to standard configuration dir
27        -p prefs, --prefspath=file, --prefs-file=file
28                                          Set user preferences file
29        --siteconfigpath=path             Path for site configs
30                                          (def: /etc/mail/spamassassin)
31        --cf='config line'                Additional line of configuration
32        -x, --nocreate-prefs              Don't create user preferences file
33        -e, --exit-code                   Exit with a non-zero exit code if the
34                                          tested message was spam
35        --mbox                            read in messages in mbox format
36        --mbx                             read in messages in UW mbx format
37        -t, --test-mode                   Pipe message through and add extra
38                                          report to the bottom
39        --lint                            Lint the rule set: report syntax errors
40        -W, --add-to-whitelist            Add addresses in mail to persistent address whitelist
41        --add-to-blacklist                Add addresses in mail to persistent address blacklist
42        -R, --remove-from-whitelist       Remove all addresses found in mail from
43                                          persistent address list
44        --add-addr-to-whitelist=addr      Add addr to persistent address whitelist
45        --add-addr-to-blacklist=addr      Add addr to persistent address blacklist
46        --remove-addr-from-whitelist=addr Remove addr from persistent address list
47        -4 --ipv4only, --ipv4-only, --ipv4 Use IPv4, disable use of IPv6 for DNS etc.
48        -6                                Use IPv6, disable use of IPv4 where possible
49        --progress                        Print progress bar
50        -D, --debug [area=n,...]          Print debugging messages
51        -V, --version                     Print version
52        -h, --help                        Print usage message
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DESCRIPTION

55       spamassassin is a simple front-end filter for SpamAssassin.
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57       Using the SpamAssassin rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic
58       tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as
59       unsolicited bulk email.  Once identified, the mail is then tagged as
60       spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent
61       application.
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63       The default tagging operations that take place are detailed in
64       "TAGGING" in spamassassin.
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66       By default, message(s) are read in from STDIN (< mailmessage), or from
67       specified files and directories (path ...)  STDIN and files are assumed
68       to be in file format, with a single message per file.  Directories are
69       assumed to be in a format where each file in the directory contains
70       only one message (directories are not recursed and filenames containing
71       whitespace or beginning with "." or "," are skipped).  The options
72       --mbox and --mbx can override the assumed format, see the appropriate
73       OPTION information below.
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75       Please note that SpamAssassin is not designed to scan large messages.
76       Don't feed messages larger than about 500 KB to SpamAssassin, as this
77       will consume a huge amount of memory.
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OPTIONS

80       -e, --error-code, --exit-code
81           Exit with a non-zero error code, if the message is determined to be
82           spam.
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84       -h, --help
85           Print help message and exit.
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87       -V, --version
88           Print version and exit.
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90       -t, --test-mode
91           Test mode.  Pipe message through and add extra report.  Note that
92           the report text assumes that the message is spam, since in normal
93           use it is only visible in this case.  Pay attention to the score
94           instead.
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96           If you run this with -d, the message will first have SpamAssassin
97           markup removed before being tested.
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99       -r, --report
100           Report this message as manually-verified spam.  This will submit
101           the mail message read from STDIN to various spam-blocker databases.
102           Currently, these are the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse
103           "https://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/", Pyzor "http://pyzor.org/",
104           Vipul's Razor "http://razor.sourceforge.net/", and SpamCop
105           "http://www.spamcop.net/".
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107           If the message contains SpamAssassin markup, the markup will be
108           stripped out automatically before submission.  The support modules
109           for DCC, Pyzor, and Razor must be installed for spam to be reported
110           to each service.  SpamCop reports will have greater effect if you
111           register and set the "spamcop_to_address" option.
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113           The message will also be submitted to SpamAssassin's learning
114           systems; currently this is the internal Bayesian statistical-
115           filtering system (the BAYES rules).  (Note that if you only want to
116           perform statistical learning, and do not want to report mail to
117           third-parties, you should use the "sa-learn" command directly
118           instead.)
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120       -k, --revoke
121           Revoke this message.  This will revoke the mail message read from
122           STDIN from various spam-blocker databases.  Currently, these are
123           Vipul's Razor.
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125           Revocation support for the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse,
126           Pyzor, and SpamCop is not currently available.
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128           If the message contains SpamAssassin markup, the markup will be
129           stripped out automatically before submission.  The support modules
130           for Razor must be installed for spam to be revoked from the
131           service.
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133           The message will also be submitted as 'ham' (non-spam) to
134           SpamAssassin's learning systems; currently this is the internal
135           Bayesian statistical-filtering system (the BAYES rules).  (Note
136           that if you only want to perform statistical learning, and do not
137           want to report mail to third-parties, you should use the "sa-learn"
138           command directly instead.)
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140       --lint
141           Syntax check (lint) the rule set and configuration files, reporting
142           typos and rules that do not compile correctly.  Exits with 0 if
143           there are no errors, or greater than 0 if any errors are found.
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145       -W, --add-to-whitelist
146           Add all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail
147           message read from STDIN, to a persistent address whitelist.  Note
148           that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a
149           persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
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151       --add-to-blacklist
152           Add all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail
153           message read from STDIN, to the persistent address blacklist.  Note
154           that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a
155           persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
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157       -R, --remove-from-whitelist
158           Remove all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail
159           message read from STDIN, from a persistent address list. STDIN must
160           contain a full email message, so to remove a single address you
161           should use --remove-addr-from-whitelist instead.
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163           Note that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a
164           persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
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166       --add-addr-to-whitelist
167           Add the named email address to a persistent address whitelist.
168           Note that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a
169           persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
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171       --add-addr-to-blacklist
172           Add the named email address to a persistent address blacklist.
173           Note that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a
174           persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
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176       --remove-addr-from-whitelist
177           Remove the named email address from a persistent address whitelist.
178           Note that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a
179           persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
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181        --ipv4only, --ipv4-only, --ipv4
182           Do not use IPv6 for DNS tests. Normally, SpamAssassin will try to
183           detect if IPv6 is available, using only IPv4 if it is not. Use if
184           the existing tests for IPv6 availability produce incorrect results
185           or crashes.
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187       -L, --local
188           Do only the ''local'' tests, ones that do not require an internet
189           connection to operate.  Normally, SpamAssassin will try to detect
190           whether you are connected to the net before doing these tests
191           anyway, but for faster checks you may wish to use this.
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193           Note that SpamAssassin's network rules are run in parallel.  This
194           can cause overhead in terms of the number of file descriptors
195           required if --local is not used; it is recommended that the minimum
196           limit on fds be raised to at least 256 for safety.
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198       -d, --remove-markup
199           Remove SpamAssassin markup (the "SpamAssassin results" report,
200           X-Spam-Status headers, etc.) from the mail message.  The resulting
201           message, which will be more or less identical to the original, pre-
202           SpamAssassin input, will be output to STDOUT.
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204           (Note: the message will not be exactly identical; some headers will
205           be reformatted due to some features of the Mail::Internet package,
206           but the body text will be.)
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208       -C path, --configpath=path, --config-file=path
209           Use the specified path for locating the distributed configuration
210           files.  Ignore the default directories (usually
211           "/usr/share/spamassassin" or similar).
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213       --siteconfigpath=path
214           Use the specified path for locating site-specific configuration
215           files.  Ignore the default directories (usually
216           "/etc/mail/spamassassin" or similar).
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218       --cf='config line'
219           Add additional lines of configuration directly from the command-
220           line, parsed after the configuration files are read.   Multiple
221           --cf arguments can be used, and each will be considered a separate
222           line of configuration.  For example:
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224                   spamassassin -t --cf="body NEWRULE /text/" --cf="score NEWRULE 3.0"
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226       -p prefs, --prefspath=prefs, --prefs-file=prefs
227           Read user score preferences from prefs (usually
228           "$HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs").
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230       --progress
231           Prints a progress bar (to STDERR) showing the current progress.
232           This option will only be useful if you are redirecting STDOUT (and
233           not STDERR).  In the case where no valid terminal is found this
234           option will behave very much like the --showdots option in other
235           SpamAssassin programs.
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237       -D [area,...], --debug [area,...]
238           Produce debugging output. If no areas are listed, all debugging
239           information is printed. Diagnostic output can also be enabled for
240           each area individually; area is the area of the code to instrument.
241           For example, to produce diagnostic output on bayes, learn, and dns,
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244                   spamassassin -D bayes,learn,dns
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246           Higher priority informational messages that are suitable for
247           logging in normal circumstances are available with an area of
248           "info".
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250           For more information about which areas (also known as channels) are
251           available, please see the documentation at:
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253                   L<http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DebugChannels>
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255       -x, --nocreate-prefs
256           Disable creation of user preferences file.
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258       --mbox
259           Specify that the input message(s) are in mbox format.  mbox is a
260           standard Unix message folder format.
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262       --mbx
263           Specify that the input message(s) are in UW .mbx format.  mbx is
264           the mailbox format used within the University of Washington's IMAP
265           implementation; see "http://www.washington.edu/imap/".
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SEE ALSO

268       sa-learn(1) spamd(1) spamc(1) Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3)
269       Mail::SpamAssassin(3)
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PREREQUISITES

272       "Mail::SpamAssassin"
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BUGS

275       See <http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/>
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AUTHORS

278       The SpamAssassin(tm) Project <https://spamassassin.apache.org/>
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281       SpamAssassin is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, as
282       described in the file "LICENSE" included with the distribution.
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