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NAME
spamassassin - simple front-end filtering script for SpamAssassin
SYNOPSIS
spamassassin [options] [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
spamassassin -d [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
spamassassin -r [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
spamassassin -k [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
spamassassin -W|-R [ < mailmessage | path ... ]
Options:
-L, --local Local tests only (no online tests)
-r, --report Report message as spam
-k, --revoke Revoke message as spam
-d, --remove-markup Remove spam reports from a message
-C path, --configpath=path, --config-file=path
Path to standard configuration dir
-p prefs, --prefspath=file, --prefs-file=file
Set user preferences file
--siteconfigpath=path Path for site configs
(def: /etc/spamassassin)
--cf='config line' Additional line of configuration
--pre='config line' Additional line of ".pre" (prepended to configuration)
-x, --nocreate-prefs Don't create user preferences file
-e, --exit-code Exit with a non-zero exit code if the
tested message was spam
--mbox read in messages in mbox format
--mbx read in messages in UW mbx format
-t, --test-mode Pipe message through and add extra
report to the bottom
--lint Lint the rule set: report syntax errors
-W, --add-to-welcomelist Add addresses in mail to persistent address welcomelist
--add-to-blocklist Add addresses in mail to persistent address blocklist
-R, --remove-from-welcomelist Remove all addresses found in mail from
persistent address list
--add-addr-to-welcomelist=addr Add addr to persistent address welcomelist
--add-addr-to-blocklist=addr Add addr to persistent address blocklist
--remove-addr-from-welcomelist=addr Remove addr from persistent address list
-4 --ipv4only, --ipv4-only, --ipv4 Use IPv4, disable use of IPv6 for DNS etc.
-6 Use IPv6, disable use of IPv4 where possible
--progress Print progress bar
-D, --debug [area,...] Print debugging messages
-V, --version Print version
-h, --help Print usage message
DESCRIPTION
spamassassin is a simple front-end filter for SpamAssassin.
Using the SpamAssassin rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text
to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited bulk email. Once identified, the mail is then tagged as
spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
The default tagging operations that take place are detailed in "TAGGING" in spamassassin.
By default, message(s) are read in from STDIN (< mailmessage), or from specified files and directories
(path ...) STDIN and files are assumed to be in file format, with a single message per file.
Directories are assumed to be in a format where each file in the directory contains only one message
(directories are not recursed and filenames containing whitespace or beginning with "." or "," are
skipped). The options --mbox and --mbx can override the assumed format, see the appropriate OPTION
information below.
Files compressed with gzip/bzip2/xz/lz4/lzip/lzo are uncompressed automatically. See
"Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator" for more details.
Please note that SpamAssassin is not designed to scan huge messages. Messages larger than ~10-20MB
should not be fed to SpamAssassin, as memory consumption will increase rapidly.
OPTIONS
-e, --error-code, --exit-code
Exit with a non-zero error code, if the message is determined to be spam.
-h, --help
Print help message and exit.
-V, --version
Print version and exit.
-t, --test-mode
Test mode. Pipe message through and add extra report. Note that the report text assumes that the
message is spam, since in normal use it is only visible in this case. Pay attention to the score
instead.
If you run this with -d, the message will first have SpamAssassin markup removed before being tested.
-r, --report
Report this message as manually-verified spam. This will submit the mail message read from STDIN to
various spam-blocker databases. Currently, these are the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse
"https://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/", Pyzor "https://www.pyzor.org/", Vipul's Razor
"http://razor.sourceforge.net/", and SpamCop "https://www.spamcop.net/".
If the message contains SpamAssassin markup, the markup will be stripped out automatically before
submission. The support modules for DCC, Pyzor, and Razor must be installed for spam to be reported
to each service. SpamCop reports will have greater effect if you register and set the
"spamcop_to_address" option.
The message will also be submitted to SpamAssassin's learning systems; currently this is the internal
Bayesian statistical-filtering system (the BAYES rules). (Note that if you only want to perform
statistical learning, and do not want to report mail to third-parties, you should use the "sa-learn"
command directly instead.)
-k, --revoke
Revoke this message. This will revoke the mail message read from STDIN from various spam-blocker
databases. Currently, these are Vipul's Razor.
Revocation support for the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, Pyzor, and SpamCop is not currently
available.
If the message contains SpamAssassin markup, the markup will be stripped out automatically before
submission. The support modules for Razor must be installed for spam to be revoked from the service.
The message will also be submitted as 'ham' (non-spam) to SpamAssassin's learning systems; currently
this is the internal Bayesian statistical-filtering system (the BAYES rules). (Note that if you only
want to perform statistical learning, and do not want to report mail to third-parties, you should use
the "sa-learn" command directly instead.)
--lint
Syntax check (lint) the rule set and configuration files, reporting typos and rules that do not
compile correctly. Exits with 0 if there are no errors, or greater than 0 if any errors are found.
-W, --add-to-welcomelist
Previously --add-to-whitelist which will work interchangeably until 4.1.
Add all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail message read from STDIN, to a persistent
address welcomelist. Note that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a persistent
address list plugin enabled for this to work.
--add-to-blocklist
Previously --add-to-blacklist which will work interchangeably until 4.1.
Add all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail message read from STDIN, to the
persistent address blocklist. Note that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a
persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
-R, --remove-from-welcomelist
Previously --remove-from-whitelist which will work interchangeably until 4.1.
Remove all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail message read from STDIN, from a
persistent address list. STDIN must contain a full email message, so to remove a single address you
should use --remove-addr-from-welcomelist instead.
Note that you must be running "spamassassin" or "spamd" with a persistent address list plugin enabled
for this to work.
--add-addr-to-welcomelist
Previously --add-addr-to-whitelist which will work interchangeably until 4.1.
Add the named email address to a persistent address welcomelist. Note that you must be running
"spamassassin" or "spamd" with a persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
--add-addr-to-blocklist
Previously --add-addr-to-blacklist which will work interchangeably until 4.1.
Add the named email address to a persistent address blocklist. Note that you must be running
"spamassassin" or "spamd" with a persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
--remove-addr-from-welcomelist
Previously --remove-addr-from-whitelist which will work interchangeably until 4.1.
Remove the named email address from a persistent address welcomelist. Note that you must be running
"spamassassin" or "spamd" with a persistent address list plugin enabled for this to work.
--ipv4only, --ipv4-only, --ipv4
Do not use IPv6 for DNS tests. Normally, SpamAssassin will try to detect if IPv6 is available, using
only IPv4 if it is not. Use if the existing tests for IPv6 availability produce incorrect results or
crashes.
-L, --local
Do only the ''local'' tests, ones that do not require an internet connection to operate. Normally,
SpamAssassin will try to detect whether you are connected to the net before doing these tests anyway,
but for faster checks you may wish to use this.
Note that SpamAssassin's network rules are run in parallel. This can cause overhead in terms of the
number of file descriptors required if --local is not used; it is recommended that the minimum limit
on fds be raised to at least 256 for safety.
-d, --remove-markup
Remove SpamAssassin markup (the "SpamAssassin results" report, X-Spam-Status headers, etc.) from the
mail message. The resulting message, which will be more or less identical to the original, pre-
SpamAssassin input, will be output to STDOUT.
(Note: the message will not be exactly identical; some headers will be reformatted due to some
features of the Mail::Internet package, but the body text will be.)
-C path, --configpath=path, --config-file=path
Use the specified path for locating the distributed configuration files. Ignore the default
directories (usually "/usr/share/spamassassin" or similar).
--siteconfigpath=path
Use the specified path for locating site-specific configuration files. Ignore the default
directories (usually "/etc/spamassassin" or similar).
--cf='config line'
Add additional lines of configuration directly from the command-line, parsed after the configuration
files are read. Multiple --cf arguments can be used, and each will be considered a separate line of
configuration. For example:
spamassassin -t --cf="body NEWRULE /text/" --cf="score NEWRULE 3.0"
--pre='config line'
Add additional lines of .pre configuration directly from the command-line, parsed before the
configuration files are read. Multiple --pre arguments can be used, and each will be considered a
separate line of configuration. For example:
spamassassin -t --pre="loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Foobar"
-p prefs, --prefspath=prefs, --prefs-file=prefs
Read user score preferences from prefs (usually "$HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs").
--progress
Prints a progress bar (to STDERR) showing the current progress. This option will only be useful if
you are redirecting STDOUT (and not STDERR). In the case where no valid terminal is found this
option will behave very much like the --showdots option in other SpamAssassin programs.
-D [area,...], --debug [area,...]
Produce debugging output. If no areas are listed, all debugging information is printed. Diagnostic
output can also be enabled for each area individually; area is the area of the code to instrument.
For example, to produce diagnostic output on bayes, learn, and dns, use:
spamassassin -D bayes,learn,dns
Use an empty string (-D '') to indicate no areas when the next item on the command line is a path, to
prevent the path from being parsed as an area.
Higher priority informational messages that are suitable for logging in normal circumstances are
available with an area of "info".
For more information about which areas (also known as channels) are available, please see the
documentation at:
L<https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DebugChannels>
-x, --nocreate-prefs
Disable creation of user preferences file.
--mbox
Specify that the input message(s) are in mbox format. mbox is a standard Unix message folder format.
--mbx
Specify that the input message(s) are in UW .mbx format. mbx is the mailbox format used within the
University of Washington's IMAP implementation; see "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UW_IMAP".
SEE ALSO
sa-learn(1) spamd(1) spamc(1) Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3) Mail::SpamAssassin(3)
PREREQUISITES
"Mail::SpamAssassin"
BUGS
See <https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/>
AUTHORS
The SpamAssassin(tm) Project <https://spamassassin.apache.org/>
COPYRIGHT
SpamAssassin is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, as described in the file "LICENSE"
included with the distribution.
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