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SpamAssassin is a rule-based spam identification tool. It's written in Perl, and there are several ways of using it: You can call a client program, spamassassin, and have it determine whether a given message is likely to be spam; you can do essentially the same thing but use a client/server approach so that your client isn't always loading and parsing the rules each time mail comes; or, finally, you can use a Perl module interface to filter spam from a Perl program.