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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

Vipul's Razor


Perl is required to install and use Vipul's Razor. This will already be installed as SpamAssassin uses it. A C compiler is also required, except on Debian Linux, for which a binary package is available.

To operate, Razor requires a constant internet connection. The Razor communication uses TCP port 2703, and Razor also uses TCP pings on port 7 to determine which servers are closest, so firewalls will have to be configured to enable these ports.

Installing Razor

There are no mainstream RPM packages available for Razor. However, Razor is available in Gentoo and Debian Linux. To install in Gentoo, use the emerge razor command, and to install in Debian, use apt-get razor. On other Linux distributions and UNIX variants it can be installed from source.

Razor is available for download from the home page at http://razor.sourceforge.net/. Razor is not available via CPAN. Two packages are available, razor-agents and razor-agents-sdk. Both packages should be downloaded. The razor-agents...