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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


SpamAssassin by default adds a number of headers to emails to help users, scripts, and email clients to effectively distinguish between spam and ham. SpamAssassin allows users and administrators to remove, redefine, or add existing headers.

SpamAssassin can also wrap spam in a report to hide the details of spam from the user, and provide a summary of the content instead.

In addition, SpamAssassin can also be configured to alter the Subject: email header to mark an email as spam. This is especially helpful when email clients do not provide the ability to sort and filter email by headers, but provide this ability for the email subject.

All email header and report definitions can be configured by editing the local.cf file for site-wide changes, or by editing user_prefs for changes that affect only one user.

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