Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Spamassassin

Spamassassin

If you have used email for any length of time, you have likely been subjected to spam — unwanted email that is sent to thousands of people at the same time. Fedora provides an MDA named Spamassassin to assist you in reducing and eliminating unwanted emails. Easily integrated with Procmail and Sendmail, it can be configured for both systemwide and individual use. It employs a combination of rulesets and blacklists (Internet domains known to mail spam).

Enabling Spamassassin is simple. You must first have installed and configured Procmail. The Read Me file found in /usr/share/doc/spamassasin provides details on configuring the .procmail file to process mail through Spamassassin. It tags probable spam with a unique header; you can then have Procmail filter the mail in any manner you choose. One interesting use of Spamassasin is to use it to tag email received at special email accounts established solely for the purpose of attracting spam. This information is then shared with the Spamassassin site, where these "spam trap"-generated hits help the authors fine-tune the rulesets.

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