The Bottom Line
IMAP Spam Begone lets you apply great SpamAssassin spam filtering to any IMAP account. It works reliably and efficiently, but different actions depending on the spam score would be nice.
Pros
- IMAP Spam Begone enables SpamAssassin for IMAP
- Can move, delete or mark spam
- Easy to use, reliable
Cons
- IMAP Spam Begone can't use score-depending actions
- Doesn't have a real configuration file
- Submission of spam to spam databases might be nice
Description
- IMAP Spam Begone lets you use SpamAssassin with IMAP email accounts.
- Detected spam can be flagged, moved to a special junk mail folder, or marked for deletion.
- Optionally, IMAP Spam Begone also expunges the Inbox.
- Supports SSL server connections and can save your password.
- IMAP Spam Begone supports any platform running Python and SpamAssassin (Linux, Windows, OS X,...)
Guide Review - IMAP Spam Begone 0.96 - Free Spam Filter
SpamAssassin is a great tool for filtering spam on the server level, or when fetching mail with procmail, for example. It doesn't work with IMAP accounts out of the box. But add IMAP Spam Begone, and you can clean out the spam.
IMAP Spam Begone can move detected spam to a special folder, mark it, or delete it. While this works reliably and efficiently, some may prefer to take different action depending on a message's spam score. Currently, IMAP Spam Begone doesn't support this. It does, however, support secure SSL connections.
While IMAP Spam Begone is easy to use and can save account passwords, a clean configuration file could be nice, too. Since IMAP Spam Begone is written in Python, it should require just Python — and SpamAssassin.
