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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

Microsoft Outlook


Emails received as spam are best stored in a separate folder. To create this folder, right-click Inbox and select New Folder from the main screen. The Create New Folder window will appear. Specify Spam as the name of the new folder in the Name field. The location of the new folder can be changed if desired; the default location of Inbox should suit most users.

Note

If an IMAP server is in use, it is best to create the spam folder on the server, as this allows the system administrator to use the spam for training the Bayesian filter or as a spam corpus.

Once this is done, click OK. There may be a confirmation dialog, asking if a shortcut to the folder should be added to the Outlook Bar. As the Spam Folder will (hopefully) not be looked at often, the best response is to click No.

To create a new rule, click the Rules Wizard option in the Tools menu. The Rules Wizard appears as shown below. Under Apply changes to this folder, select the folder that email is delivered to: in this...