Components and Plugins

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Components and Plugins

Included components

The following executable components are included in "SpamAssassin for Windows". You will find a complete list of available start parameters for the corresponding executable when using the "-h" or "--help" on the command line. The official documentation can also be found in the "docs" folder or on the Apache SpamAssassin Website.
 

Component

Description

spamassassin.exe

Checks a given mail for spam signs and assigns a spam score. Additional information can be found here.

spamd.exe

Daemonized version of spamassassin (spamd). Started once to run as a background process that is listening for incoming mails (similar to a Windows service). In contrast to "spamassassin.exe", which is started and stopped for each mail, the daemon works much more efficient. The daemon will require a lot less time to scan a mail. Additional information can be found here.

spamc.exe

Client for spamd. Passes the given mail to the spamassassin daemon and returns the result. Additional information can be found here.

sa-update.exe

Downloads the latest SpamAssassin rule set. You should run this tool regular basis to ensure that the spam filter uses the most recent anti-spam rules. Additional information can be found here.

sa-learn.exe

Trains the SpamAssassin Bayes filter with spam/ham messages. Additional information can be found here.

 

 

 

Supported plugins

The following plugins have been tested on Windows and should work properly. Any other SpamAssassin or third party plugin may be used as well, but will not be covered by the support of JAM Software

 

 

Plugin

Description

 

Documentation

AutoLearnThreshold

threshold-based discriminator for Bayes auto-learning


Link

Bayes

determines likelihood of a mail being spam using a Bayesian classifier


Link

Check

provides main check functionality


Link

DKIM

performs DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) checks to validate mail


Link

Freemail

detect email addresses using free webmail services


Link

Hashcash

perform hashcash verification tests


Link

HTTPSMismatch

find URI mismatches between href and anchor text


N/A

ImageInfo

rules to match metadata of image attachments


N/A

MIMEHeader

apply regexp rules against MIME headers in the message


Link

PDFInfo

use information about attached PDF files in rules


Link

Razor

distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network


Link

SPF

checks a message against Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records to fight email address forgery


Link

Spamcop

perform SpamCop message reporting


Link

Shortcircuit

short-circuit evaluation for certain rules


Link

Textcat

guess the language used in the message body text


Link

TxRep

normalize scores with sender reputation records


Link

URIDNSBL

look up URLs found in the message against several DNS blacklists


Link

VBounce

avoid backscatter spam


Link

WhitelistSubject

whitelist/Blacklist certain subject regular expressions


Link

 

Integrate additional plugins

SpamAssassin for Windows supports the dynamic loading of additional plugins. To add a plugin, please copy the plugin script file (file extensions *.pm) to the configuration directory (%INSTALLDIR%\etc\spamassassin\) of SpamAssassin for Windows. Most plugins also ship with a configuration file (file extensions *.cf) which should be copied to the same folder as well.

As an example, you can register the "RelayedByDialup" plugin by opening the "relayed_by_dialup.cf" and changing the "loadplugin" line into the following:
loadplugin RelayedByDialup relayed_by_dialup.pm

When using the SpamAssassin daemon (spamd.exe), you will have to stop and start the application to make the daemon consider the new configuration.