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SpamAssassin is a mail filter used to identify spam. It is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. 

 

SpamAssassin is highly accurate in spam identification and catches up to 95 percent of all spam e-mail with its default settings, while providing a very low false-positive identification rate of less than 0.5 percent. This means that less than 5 in every 1000 emails are incorrectly marked as spam.

 

SpamAssassin uses the combined score from multiple types of checks to determine if a given message is spam.

Its primary features are:

• Header tests

• Body phrase tests

• Bayesian filtering

• Address whitelist/blacklist (ManualWhitelist)

• Collaborative spam identification databases (DCC, Pyzor, Razor2);

• RBL (Realtime Blackhole Lists)

• DNS Blocklists

• Character sets and locales

ClamAV is an anti-virus scanning program which automatically scans your emails and its attachments for potential viruses. The effectiveness of ClamAV is so apparent that universities, internet service providers and companies all over the world use it everyday.

 

Benefits of ClamAV

• scans inbound emails and blocks viruses before they reach your computer

• scans outgoing emails to avoid the embarrassment and possible legal liability of sending out viruses

• ClamAV checks for new virus definitions every hour and updates itself automatically. This enables you to have one of the best solutions in anti-virus protection.