Bayesian version 0.02

This module implements the naive Bayesian spam-testing algorithm described by Paul Graham at:

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

In short: the system is trained by exposure to mailboxes of known spam and non-spam messages. These are (1) MIME-decoded, and non-text parts deleted; (2) tokenised. The database files spam.db and nonspam.db contain lists of tokens and the number of messages in which they have occurred; general.db holds a message count.

This module is in early development; it is functional but basic. It is expected that more mailbox parsing routines will be added, probably using Mail::Box; and that ancillary programs will be supplied for use of the module as a personal mail filter.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

BerkeleyDB
MIME::Parser (in MIME::tools)

Also useful will be:

IO::File

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.