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Slam that spam: 7 packages tested

If you are drowning in spam, help is available from software and email services that block unwanted mail. Some work better than others. Here's a look at seven anti-spam apps and services. Spam is out ... read more

Ratcheting up SpamAssassin to block even more spam

You wrote a column on 5/1 about controlling spam with SpamAssassin. We have taken the steps you suggested but we still have an amount of spam getting through greater than we think would be the norm. read more

Top spam-killer server program SpamAssasin gets new release

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), announced on February 11 an early Valentine's Day present to system and e-mail administrators with the release of Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0, the award winning ... read more

SpamAssassin proves to be an effective engine for battling spam

SpamAssassin has proven itself to be a cost-effective and valuable open source weapon in the war on spam. But it’s also a complex solution. Capitalizing on SpamAssassin’s strengths, a number of ... read more

Book review: Slamming Spam

The subtitle "A Guide for System Administrators" might suggest that this is not a book for developers. That might be so in a perfect world, but in this world, I know a lot of developers who run their ... read more

Review: SpamAssassin 2.63

The source code is available online and in pre-packaged versions. We set up a Fedora Core 2 server with sendmail and SpamAssassin. Once installed, we changed the global procmail configuration to ... read more

SpamAssassin takes aim at e-mail

Unfortunately, InfoWorld is not immune to spam. When seeking solutions to our spam problem, we wanted a product that would easily integrate into our existing environment while offering the flexibility ... read more

Post.Office adds SpamAssassin, plug-in architecture

Post.Office 3.5.3 version 720, an update of the mail and list server for Mac OS X from Tenon Intersystems, has been released. The update offers extended Spam filtering, improved IMAP handling, ... read more

OpenBSD Spamassassin problem

I've been setting up a mail server on my OpenBSD box and it mostly seems to work. I'm at the stage of trying to get spam filtering working and I'm using Spamassassin. What I'm noticing is that the ... read more