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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

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

SpamAssassin proves to be an effective engine for battling spam

SpamAssassin has proven itself to be a cost-effective and ... For example, marketing can have higher thresholds for marketing-related messages, while engineering can cut them back to none. This ... read more

“SpamAssassin” Released by O’Reilly

But the primary responsibility for dealing with the burgeoning crisis of spam proliferation falls on the shoulders of system administrators, says Alan Schwartz, author of “SpamAssassin ... email ... 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 ... 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 ... read more

Popular open source spam filter gets boost

SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software ... When you feed the open source community, the investment comes back and pays dividends.’’ One customer very pleased with Traffic Control 3 ... read more

Fighting Spam and Viruses at the Server, Part V: The Linux Edition

That factor, in turn, stems from the close relationship between Unix and the Internet, which dates back decades before the arrival of ... Arguably the most popular of the free spam detectors out there ... read more

Beating Spam and Viruses with amavisd-new and Maia Mailguard

reporting confirmed spam to the same collaborative networks that SpamAssassin consults—Vipul's Razor, Pyzor and the DCC. By sharing this information with these networks, you give something back, ... read more

SpamAssassin takes aim at e-mail

The back-end mail cluster consists of Lotus Domino servers running ... To this mix, we added a separate Debian server running Sendmail and SpamAssassin using the “milter” in-line filtering ... read more

SpamAssassin is back

I used to run a service filtering mail for a couple of hundred thousand mailboxes, so I'm sure I saw a lot of stuff that people wouldn't see if they're just looking at their personal email. Filtering ... read more