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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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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

Readers: Theres No One Solution to Spam

I found it quite humorous that the eWeek Enterprise Update [e-mail newsletter] containing your article on "How to slam spam" was caught by my system ... Jeff Young, MD/Win Corp. SpamAssassin User We ... read more

Damn that spam

He oversees the university email system and deploys filter SpamAssassin. Of the hundreds of thousands ... Robert Haskins, co-author of Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators, marvels at the ... read more

Spam and punishment

SpamAssassin. SpamKiller. Spam Punisher. And, of course ... one reason why none of the national laws currently under consideration is a slam-dunk. The numbers tell the story: In 2001 spam made up a ... read more

Ever had to register to buy online - and been PELTED with SPAM?

About all anyone can do is use junk filters or packages like SpamAssassin and hope for the best. All this is well known. However, a lot of spam comes from ostensibly legitimate online businesses that ... read more

Email security appliances

In this respect the Barracuda Spam Firewall is hard to beat, and we recommend it if you only want inbound filtering. Otherwise, the more expensive RazorGate has the most to offer, including its unique ... 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 ... 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 ... read more

How to slam spam

The Spamhaus Block List (SBL) is a realtime blocklist of spam sources and spam services. The SBL is a real-time database of IP addresses of verified spam sources (including spammers, spam gangs and ... read more