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Slamming Spam with SpamAssassin

The scoring keywords define what is to be considered spam and the scores assigned by rules (see Figure 3.7). The required_score defines what SpamAssassin considers to be spam. This value can be adjust... read more

Book review: Slamming Spam

The packages covered include procmail, SpamAssassin, Razor, and so on. They also discuss configuring the built-in anti-spam featrues of Sendmail, Postfix, and qmail. There's an excellent section on bo... read more

A Tale of Two Spam Solutions

Call it "a tale of two spam solutions." On the one hand, we have news this week of the US Department of Justice going after spammers in a series of arrests and indictments that are partially the resul... read more

MIT Conference Takes Aim at Spam

CAMBRIDGE, Mass (AP) -- It's going to take the best and the brightest to slam the spammers ... it can be downloaded for free and is compatible with SpamAssassin or other spam-flagging software. "This ... read more

How to Slam Spam

While PayPals IT department has tested a dozen spam solutions, including SpamAssassin, user fears of false positives have persisted. The company uses mail servers from Sendmail and IronPort Systems Ir... read more

Tips and tricks for slamming the door on spam

Eddie Urenda, Bruin OnLine’s help desk supervisor, said that to reduce spam, BOL recently installed SpamAssassin, a program that evaluates e-mail and places a spam ranking in the header, which the rea... read more

Getting Rid of Junk E-Mail

A product called Spam Assassin (spamassassin.taint.org) has received the best reviews, according to Shlain. It labels incoming e-mails as ads. Another one, Spam Cop (spamcop.net), is a mixture of filt... read more

Hello, And Please Don’t Hang Up: The Scourge of Robocalls

in order to determine how likely a given call is to be spam. This is very similar to the operating principle of Spamassassin, one of the more popular open source email spam filters. Just as Spamassass... read more

The Rise of Reputations in the Fight Against Spam

Alternatively, the services can be used as an input to message-scoring systems such as SpamAssassin. Distributed checksums are another example of binary reputation systems. In the case of Vipul's Razo... read more

Secure Reads: Spam kings

This is a techie tome written for the email and system administrator bogged down by spam. The authors get down in the weeds, and walk you through popular open-source tools like SpamAssassin and other ... read more

How To Choose an Anti-Spam Service Provider

This article focuses on the distinct anti-spam service, such as Postini, Cloudmark, Trend Micro, or MXlogic. Benefits of using an anti-spam service as opposed to the other available solutions is prima... read more

Slamming Spam with SpamAssassin

This chapter will help you get started with SpamAssassin, an interface that recognizes spam, and kills it dead. This chapter is from the book In this chapter, we introduce SpamAssassin, which is a wid... read more