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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

Overview of this book

As a busy administrator, you know Spam is a major distraction in todays network. The effects range from inappropriate content arriving in the mailboxes up to contact email addresses placed on a website being deluged with unsolicited mail, causing valid enquiries and sales leads to be lost and wasting employee time. The perception of the problem of spam is as big as the reality. In response to the growing problem of spam, a number of free and commercial applications and services have been developed to help network administrators and email users combat spam. Its up to you to choose and then get the most out of an antispam solution. Free to use, flexible, and effective, SpamAssassin has become the most popular open source antispam application. Its unique combination of power and flexibility make it the right choice. This book will now help you set up and optimize SpamAssassin for your network.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
SpamAssassin
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction
Glossary

Summary


If spam can automatically be sent to a folder by server-side processing, that is usually the best solution. This allows the site administrator to use the filtered spam email for training the Bayesian filter in SpamAssassin.

When this cannot be done, users can filter spam in the email clients they use. Most email clients provide some filtering ability to create folders and automatically move certain email messages into them. This filtering can be done either on the basis of headers that SpamAssassin adds to emails or on the basis of the contents of the Subject of the email. This chapter covered the configuration of filters in popular email clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Qualcomm Eudora.