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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

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...

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