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spamprobe


Information about the package, spamprobe, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The spamprobe package is designed for, A Bayesian spam filter.


Package Name:

spamprobe

Summary:

A Bayesian spam filter

Description:

A spam filter that takes a different approach from the typical hand crafted rules based systems. Instead of using pattern matching and a set of human generated rules SpamProbe relies on a Bayesian analysis of the frequency of words used in spam and non-spam emails received by an individual person. The process is completely automatic and tailors itself to the kinds of emails that each person receives. Spamprobe is not a mail filtering program itself but is designed to plug into another mail filtering system like procmail or Perl Mail::Procmail.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.4d

Release:

3.el6

Size:

194 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

QPL



Handy Yum Commands for spamprobe


Control the spamprobe package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install spamprobe

This command will install spamprobe on the server.

yum remove spamprobe

This command will un-install spamprobe on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove spamprobe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove spamprobe

This command will un-install spamprobe on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove spamprobe when using the -y flag.

yum update spamprobe

This command will update spamprobe to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove spamprobe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update spamprobe

This command will update spamprobe to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove spamprobe when using the -y flag.

yum info spamprobe

This command will show you core information about the spamprobe package.

yum deplist spamprobe

This command will show you the dependencies for spamprobe. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update spamprobe

This command will check if there is an update waiting on spamprobe. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.