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SpamProcessing

Processing and Marking Spam

Once we have scanned all incomming mail and stored the required details in the database, we have statistical information of all incoming connections. This includes both ham and spam emails. Our next step is to sort the received email into the two categories. This can be done in any way the user feels appropriate - in my case, this is done by my email client, with the help of BogoFilter. I then move all spam emails into a dedicated IMAP folder, stored on the same machine that the incoming mail is received on, and on which the database is stored. All we then have to do is periodically scan through the spam folder, extract the unique Message-ID, and update our database appropriately, before deleting (or archiving) the message.

Perl script for handling email.