| Real Anti-Spam Help for System Administrators
In Slamming Spam, two spam fighters show you how to fight backand win. Unlike most spam books, this one is written specifically for in-the-trenches system administrators: professionals who need hands-on solutions for detecting, managing, and deterring spam in Unix/Linux and/or Microsoft Windows environments.
The authors offer deep, administrator-focused coverage of the most valuable open-source tools for reducing spam's impact in the enterpriseespecially SpamAssassin. Drawing on their extensive experience in developing and implementing anti-spam tools, the authors present expert insights into every leading approach to fighting spam, including Bayesian filtering, distributed checksum filtering, and email client filtering.
Coverage includes
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Step-by-step junk mail filtering with Procmail
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Protecting Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, Microsoft Exchange, and Lotus Domino servers from spam
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Making the most of native MTA anti-spam features, including whitelists/blacklists, DNS black hole services, and header checking
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Distributed checksum filtering solutions, including Vipul's Razor and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse
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McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino
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McAfee SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange
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Implementing and managing SpamAssassin
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Implementing SMTP AUTH, providing effective outbound SMTP authentication and relaying with any mail client; and STARTTLS, encrypting outbound mail content, user names, and passwords
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Sender verification techniques, including challenge/response, special use addresses, and sender compute
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Anti-spam solutions for Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Messenger, and Unix mail clients
Whatever your IT environment and mail platform, Slamming Spam's defense in-depth strategies can help you dramatically reduce spam and all its attendant costsIT staff time, network/computing resources, and user productivity. |
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