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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

Packaged Distributions


Even though it is recommended that SpamAssassin be installed from source, packaged distributions of software are more convenient for a system administrator. They are quick and easy to install. The main advantage is that the configuration is usually tested to work with the other software on the machine. The following sections describe the installation of packaged distributions of SpamAssassin.

RPM

If a version of Linux based on the RedHat Package Manager (RPM) format is used, then SpamAssassin can be installed from RPMs. SpamAssassin is packaged with many Linux distributions, and packages of new releases of SpamAssassin are often made available from other sources.

RPMs are not the recommended method of installing SpamAssassin, but are more reliable than building from source on unusual platforms. The best place to obtain an RPM of SpamAssassin is from the download page on the SpamAssassin website, http://www.spamassassin.org/. For any SpamAssassin release n.mm (for example...