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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

You're reading from  SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2004
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811121
Pages 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

SpamAssassin
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Introduction
1. Introducing Spam 2. Spam and Anti-Spam Techniques 3. Open Relays 4. Protecting Email Addresses 5. Detecting Spam 6. Installing SpamAssassin 7. Configuration Files 8. Using SpamAssassin 9. Bayesian Filtering 10. Look and Feel 11. Network Tests 12. Rules 13. Improving Filtering 14. Performance 15. Housekeeping and Reporting 16. Building an Anti-Spam Gateway 17. Email Clients 18. Choosing Other Spam Tools 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...

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