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D. BothUsing and Administering Linux: Volume 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9786-5_50

50. Combating Spam

David Both1  
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn

  • How to use SpamAssassin to identify spam email using a set of scoring rules

  • How to create and modify SpamAssassin rules

  • How to hack MIMEDefang to classify spam depending upon its spam score

  • How to use Procmail to sort spam and other emails into mail folders

Introduction

Email is a powerful and useful tool and – despite other, newer types of communication such as texts and social media – retains a prime place in the communications strategies of most organizations and ...

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