Thank you Martin Gregorie!

Looking for the closest thing to a list for new/novice users of all
SpamAssassin headers that can appear with descriptions for understanding
the data that can appear at each SpamAssassin header.

It's for new/novice users' curiosity about understanding better the data
in each SpamAssassin header that can appear in messages' headers.


    > On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 15:24 -0500, Don Saklad wrote:
    >> Re: What's available to interpret spamassassin headers?


Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> writes:
> Why do you want to interpret them? 
>
> Once we know that we may be able to provide more sensible answers, but
> in its absence all I can say is awk, C, and Perl.
>
> Here's what I use each for:
> - C: a program that looks at messages returned by spamc and decides
>      whether its ham (which is passed to my internal MTA for delivery)
>      or spam (which is quarantined). It only needs to look at the
>      spam/notspam flag but is handling complete mail messages
>
> - Perl: a module run by logwatch which scans maillogs to generate a
>         report on the ham and spam seen the previous day
>
> - awk: a script which scans maillogs to analyse spamd performance.
>    
> - bash scripts: sometimes combined with grep, provide tools that make
>                 SA rule development easier.
>
> Martin

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