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SpamAssassin is back

I've been using spamassassin for over a decade now, but somehow that never crossed my mind. Yet it's brilliant and simple. Has anyone good examples of how that's done? plugins for common CMS? I asked ... 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

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

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

Now it's time to turn our attention to the second milter we're going to install: spamass-milter, which will provide us with our anti-spam solution, SpamAssassin. First, install the milter. The package ... 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

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

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

Disruptive Users: Whose Net Is It Anyway?

A few weeks back we noted that the tipping point in broadband as a ... Here's how to do it quickly and easily, and without looking like a bozo to the rest of the 'net. » SpamAssassin and Amavisd: Go N... 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