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SpamAssassin is back

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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” 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

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

How Can I Stop Getting Spam In My Inbox?

You will also see a message that says SpamAssassin is now: Enabled By clicking the back button at the bottom of the screen you can set other filter settings. You can set Spam Assassin to automatically ... 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

SpamAssassin Gets A Boost From Traffic Control 3

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

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 ... read more

The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block

Like Dwork and Naor’s proposal, Hashcash — which Back would elaborate on in a white paper in 2002 — never took off in a very big way. It was implemented in Apache’s open-source SpamAssassin platform, ... 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

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

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