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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

Building from Source


SpamAssassin has been installed on many different platforms. The process has been automated on most common platforms, especially Linux, and there are only a few manual steps.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for installing SpamAssassin are:

  • Perl

  • C Compiler

  • Internet connection

Note

SpamAssassin version 3.0 requires Perl version 5.6.1 or greater. SpamAssassin 2.63 can be installed on older Perl versions.

SpamAssassin requires a recent version of the Perl language and may also require other Perl modules. These can all be freely downloaded from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) website http://www.cpan.org. The best way to install any module on the CPAN site is to use a specialized Perl module called CPAN.pm. This is available from the CPAN website, and is part of recent Perl distributions. The CPAN module automates a lot of the mundane work related to installing Perl modules, including SpamAssassin and all of its prerequisites.

The exact requirements for any version of...