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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


SpamAssassin by default adds a number of headers to emails to help users, scripts, and email clients to effectively distinguish between spam and ham. SpamAssassin allows users and administrators to remove, redefine, or add existing headers.

SpamAssassin can also wrap spam in a report to hide the details of spam from the user, and provide a summary of the content instead.

In addition, SpamAssassin can also be configured to alter the Subject: email header to mark an email as spam. This is especially helpful when email clients do not provide the ability to sort and filter email by headers, but provide this ability for the email subject.

All email header and report definitions can be configured by editing the local.cf file for site-wide changes, or by editing user_prefs for changes that affect only one user.