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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

Summary


Spam email is usually archived for the purposes of creating a corpus for training a filter and identifying false positives. The user is required to manually go through spam messages to perform this sorting. One way of reducing this effort on the part of the user is to use automatic scripts and cron jobs to process and filter spam emails.

Separating spam into levels based on scores aid the user by presenting them with a smaller folder of spam to check for false positives. Spam reports can be generated by using similar scripts that parse the spam statistics that result from commands such as ps -ef. This is done by calling simple scripts from Procmail, or from running reports on system logs. These scripts and their results can be modified as required. For example, you can have site-wide and hourly reports. A little bit of an effort will relieve the system administrator and users from the considerable effort of sifting through large numbers of spam emails.

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