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SpamAssassin is back

The SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release was the first from that project in well over three years. At the 2018 Open Source Summit Europe, Giovanni Bechis talked about that release and those that will be coming ... read more

Eliminating the threat of spam email attacks

For instance, if a sender typically sends non-spam emails, and then happens to send a message that looks like spam, SpamAssassin uses it's history report to move the message score back toward a non-sp... read more

Die, Spam, Die! SpamAssassin “Whacks” Those Shady Emails

Back, when many of you were still writing letters on paper ... Years later I’m still combating spam, but since 2001 I’ve had a powerful ally: SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin 3.4.1 is an open-source Apache ... read more

Simson Says: An End to Spam With SpamAssassin

But now that mail is being filtered out by an ingenious piece of software called SpamAssassin. In the past 45 days ... some ISPs turns the accounts back on and point them at the Razor reporting networ... read more

SpamAssassin 3.3 Changes the Rules

After a little Y2K10 bump in the road, SpamAssassin is back on track with a new updating design. Version 3.3 has modified the way SpamAssassin updates its spam rules. The automatic update feature, "sa ... read more

Taking e-mail back, part 3: Fortifying your box against spammers

But before we do that, a quick note on virtual users: several readers have written in asking if the folder structure required for the virtual users we created back in part 2 needs to be manually creat... read more

DV HOWTO: Misc. performance tuning

You can always add it back by changing 644 to 755. More information is available: Enable or disable named (bind) on your DV. SpamAssassin is a service that filters for spam on incoming mail. Each inst... read more

A Tale of Two Spam Solutions

Call it "a tale of two spam solutions." On the one hand ... week's series kickoff on building an antivirus/antispam gateway with Linux. We've been using SpamAssassin, an anchor of this series, for a f... read more

Eliminating spam with SpamAssassin, DSPAM and ClamAV

DSPAM also has a backend storage database which keeps track of spam processed and Bayesian keywords learned. This back-end can utilize a variety of database back-ends including MySQL, SQLite, PostgreS... read more

Just when you thought spam was dead, it’s back and worse than ever

Combined with the ever evolving abilities of anti-malware software utilizing machine learning and behavioral tracking, spam’s relative success rate is creeping back up ... open source platforms like A... read more

SpamAssissin Strikes Again – Did You Get This Email?

In the meantime, not one but two subscribers wrote in to say our issues are being auto-tossed into their junk mail folders because they use SpamAssassin to filter ... and we’re all back to square one. ... read more

A look at SpamAssassin 3.0

it's not so much staying ahead as an "arms race" between SpamAssassin and spammers: We filter, they mutate, we start filtering the mutation, they mutate again. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. I'm actually not ... read more