Conceptually, how does Spammunition filter spam? How does it know what is spam, and what isn ?
Pretty much the entire process is outlined in Paul Graham’s article A Plan For Spam. His article inspired this project. You’ll understand how things work after reading it. In a nutshell, Spammunition filters out incoming spam by analyzing existing mail that you classify as “real” email and mail that you classify as spam. After studying all this, the program is able to accurately guess whether any new mail you receive is real mail, or spam. If it’s spam, it automatically places it your spam folder. The new mail analysis happens very quickly.
