Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators

Conclusion

Lotus Domino has all of the usual anti-spam features found in a modern MTA, which are covered in this chapter. One feature not found in most other MTAs is the ability to filter messages at the server level. Having this capability makes it much easier for administrators to deal with spam before it hits the user’s mailbox. We also covered how to filter messages, blacklists, and other anti-spam features with Notes, the email client associated with Domino.

Because most modern MTAs don’t include all of the needed anti-spam features, we chose to cover McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino 2.1. SpamKiller implements the SpamAssassin content scoring and Bayesian analysis functionality. However, the administrator doesn’t have much control over ...