| This book 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 MS Windows environments. The authors offer deep, administrator-focused coverage of the most valuable open-source tools for reducing spam's impact in the enterprise - especially SpamAssassin. Drawing on their experience in developing & implementing anti-spam tools, the authors present insights into every leading approach to fighting spam, including Bayesian filtering, distributed checksum filtering, and email client filtering.
Coverage includes: Junk mail filtering with Procmail; Protecting Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, MS Exchange, & Lotus Domino servers from spam; Making the most of native MTA anti-spam features, including whitelists/blacklists, DNS black hole services, and header checking; Distributed checksum filtering solutions, including Vipul's Razor and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse; McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino; McAfee SpamKiller for MS Exchange; Implementing and managing SpamAssassin; Implementing SMTP AUTH, providing effective outbound SMTP authentication & relaying with any mail client; and STARTTLS, encrypting outbound mail content, user names, and passwords; Sender verification techniques, including challenge/response, special use addresses, and sender compute; Anti-spam solutions for Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Messenger, and Unix mail clients.
Whatever your IT environment and mail platform, Slamming Spam's defense strategies can help you dramatically reduce spam and all its attendant costs-IT staff time, network/computing resources, and user productivity. | |
