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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

DCC


Although the correct term is 'The Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse', it is referred to as DCC here to enhance readability. DCC is the most effective network service, but also the most complex.

DCC is written in C. To build from source (binary packages are rare) a C compiler is required. DCC uses UDP port 6277 to communicate with servers, so this should be enabled through any firewall in use.

Installing DCC

DCC is available in RPM format for Mandrake, but for no other RPM-based distribution. Use the rpm -i command to install it. DCC is available in Gentoo Linux and Debian Linux; use emerge net-mail/dcc under Gentoo, and apt-get dcc-client in Debian. For other distributions and versions of UNIX, DCC should be installed from source.

The source for DCC can be downloaded from http://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/.

The source is packaged as a tar file. Unpack this and then run the configure script. This script will automatically detect any required software libraries or inform if they are missing...

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