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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

Mozilla Thunderbird


Mozilla Thunderbird is an Open Source email client. It is free to use and has many features. It can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/. To configure it to filter messages based on the X-Spam-Status header created by SpamAssassin, follow these directions.

From the File menu, select New and then Folder to create a new folder for filtering spam into. The application prompts for the folder name and also the parent folder. Enter an appropriate name and choose an appropriate parent folder. If an IMAP server is in use, then it is advised to store the spam folder on the server. This enables the email administrator to access the spam for Bayesian learning or for use as a corpus. After the name and parent have been chosen, click OK

Next, to define the filter, select Message Filters from the Tools menu. In the dialog box, click the New button.

In the next dialog box, enter a name for the filter, for example Spam. Then, select Match all of the following...