Source: spamoracle Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers Uploaders: Samuel Mimram , Stefano Zacchiroli Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-ocaml, ocaml-nox (>= 3.11) Standards-Version: 3.9.1 Homepage: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html#spamoracle Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/spamoracle.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/spamoracle.git Package: spamoracle Architecture: any Depends: ${ocaml:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Conflicts: spamoracle-byte Replaces: spamoracle-byte Provides: spamoracle-byte Description: statistical analysis spam filter based on Bayes' formula SpamOracle, a.k.a. "Saint Peter", is a tool to help detect and filter away "spam" (unsolicited commercial e-mail). It proceeds by statistical analysis of the words that appear in the e-mail, comparing the frequencies of words with those found in a user-provided corpus of known spam and known legitimate e-mail. The classification algorithm is based on Bayes' formula, and is described in Paul Graham's paper, A plan for spam. . This program is designed to work in conjunction with procmail. The result of the analysis is output as an additional message header X-Spam:, followed by yes, no or unknown, plus additional details. A procmail rule can then test this X-Spam: header and deliver the e-mail to the appropriate mailbox.