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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

Business Cards and Promotional Material


There is no evidence that spammers collect email addresses from business cards or from promotional material.

If email addresses are published as part of a promotional campaign, it is worthwhile using a different email address created specifically for each campaign. If a spammer gains control over a third-party computer through Trojan software and the user of such a computer responds to such a promotional campaign, there is a possibility that the Trojan software will pass the promotional email address back to the spammer's central database. By changing email addresses for each campaign, the accounts can be suspended once the campaign has finished.