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Eliminating spam with SpamAssassin, DSPAM and ClamAV

Security consultant James Turnbull scrutinizes every facet of Linux security in his book, Hardening Linux. Here, the author explores three open source antispam tools that can be used in conjunction to ... read more

4 Steps: Eliminate Spam

First things first: The average computer user's (which is the overwhelming majority of us) hope to completely eliminate spam is a vain one ... Depending on your platform, options include SpamAssassin, ... read more

Sensory Networks Unveils Industry's Largest Security Application Ecosystem With 22 Partners

Additionally, open source applications available include: Snort®, Clam AV™, DSPAM and Apache Spam Assassin ... trademark of Sourcefire, Inc. SpamAssassin is a trademark of the Apache Software Foundati... read more

SpamAssassin 3.4.1 released

SpamAssassin 3.4.1 can do a more thorough and careful job of normalizing all messages to the UTF-8 character set before applying rules. That should help to eliminate various tricks using strange chara... read more

Fighting spam with qpsmtpd

Over the years, I have tackled spam with a variety of solutions that culminated in a complicated Postfix configuration with amavisd-new processing and re-injecting emails and then also using SpamAssas... read more

Good News: A Sustained Drop In Spam Levels

Orome1 writes "Industry and government efforts have dealt a significant blow to spam, according to a Commtouch report that is compiled based on an analysis of more than 10 billion transactions handled ... read more

Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

Recently I decided that I wanted to run my own MTA. Downloaded qmail, applied a couple of patches and it was done. The problem is making sure my mail is not marked as spam by the major MTAs out there, ... read more

EMail: bankruptcy, or do we need a new currency

E-mail sucks. How’s that for starters. If you’re like me, you spend hours of your valuable time separating the wheat from the chaff. Others like Fred Wilson are filing for “e-mail bankruptcy.” I think ... read more

Spamassassin and dspam on Postfix

I would like to know how to configure the Dspam and Spamassassim together in Postfix. Is it difficult to do? Can you recommend some documentation to teach me how to do this procedure? > Integrating Po... read more

E-mail security: Defending the server

Security for e-mail gateways falls into four general areas: protecting the server itself, protecting the inside network, dealing with unsolicited commercial e-mail (commonly called "spam") and remote ... read more

Security Bytes: Phishers exploit MasterCard breach

Security hole in SpamAssassin Attackers could exploit a vulnerability in ... which could be exploited via messages containing specially crafted headers that will cause spam checking to take a long tim... read more