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SpamAssassin

A practical guide to integration and configuration

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Paperback, 220 pages
Released: Sept 2004
ISBN: 1904811124
Author: Alistair McDonald

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Spam has become a serious problem for businesses, wasting employees’ time and costing millions of dollars. To combat this growing problem, a number of applications and services have been developed, and SpamAssassin is one of the most effective and popular open source solutions. Free to use, flexible, and effective, SpamAssassin has become the most popular open source antispam application. Its unique combination of power and flexibility make it the right choice.

This book will now help you set up and optimize SpamAssassin for your network. As a system administrator, it’s down to you to implement, configure, and adapt SpamAssassin to fight the Spam War. Fortunately, in SpamAssassin you chose well. Its power and flexibility make it a potent tool. However you also know that any flexible application is only as good as how it’s set up and configured. This book is a comprehensive guide to the features, options, and implementation strategies you need to get the most of out SpamAssassin.

This comprehensive and detailed guide answers all your SpamAssassin questions. You will learn about:

Spam detection and prevention
Installing and running SpamAssassin
Using Bayesian Filtering
Configuring mail clients
Rewriting spam messages
Integrating SpamAssassin with external services
Blacklisting and whitelisting
Increasing Performance
Using SpamAssassin as a service
Using SpamAssassin with Fetchmail, postfix, sendmail, Exim, Qmail, procmail
SpamAssassin rules

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Intro
1. Introducing Spam
2. Spam and Anti-Spam techniques
3. Open Relays
4. Protecting Email Addresses
5. Detecting Spam
6. Installing SpamAssassin
7. Configuration Files
8. Using SpamAssassin
9. Bayesian Filtering

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10. Look and Feel
11. Network Tests

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12. Rules
13. Improving Filtering
14. Performance
15. Housekeeping and Reporting
16. Building an Anti-Spam Gateway
17. Email Clients
18. Choosing other Spam Tools
Appendix A
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alistair McDonald is the founder and Managing Director of InRevo Ltd, an IT consultancy based in Berkshire, UK. He worked for several large corporations before founding InRevo in 1994. The company offers security, email, and other IT consultancy, as well as bespoke development. Alistair is a developer specializing in C++ and Perl. When first introduced to Perl, he described it as "a whole new level of flexibility". Alistair got involved with the role of email administrator for one of InRevo's clients, and subsequently honed his skills setting up servers for InRevo. Alistair lists his favorite open-source projects as GNU Emacs, the Linux kernel, the Gentoo Linux distribution, the Perl language, SpamAssassin, and Postfix. He is also a big fan of xplanet and xscreensaver for eye candy. Alistair is very much a family man, and enjoys spending time with his wife and two children in and around Berkshire, where they have lived for the past ten years.

ABOUT SpamAssassin

SpamAssassin(tm) is an extensible email filter which is used to identify spam. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited bulk email.

Visit www.SpamAssassin.org for more information

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