On Sat, Dec 03 2022, Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote: > no maintainer, python 2 only, just a few old distros still package it, > no upstream activity since years, i don't even see our 1.1b1 version > from 2015 on their homepage which still takes about python 2.2.2, > outlook 2000 and the alpha stage this software is in. > > Anyone still using it? > Can it go?
ok jca@ to drop it > --- > Information for > https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/spambayes-1.1b1p1.tgz > > Comment: > 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. > > Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]> > > WWW: http://www.spambayes.org/ > > -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
