Adminspotting: Stories of Spam, Part 1

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 14, 2006

[ Thanks to Joe for
this link. ]

This article will explain how to create a shared, central area
for users to contribute spam that they’ve received in their email.
From this central area, an admin can run sa-learn–a tool that
teaches SpamAssassin about new spam–on a periodic basis to sweep
the directory.

“I’ll be using Dovecot for the IMAP server. POP3 won’t work for
this project since it doesn’t support server-side folders. However,
if you’re still strictly using POP3 on your server, I’d advise
looking at a calendar. I’ll also be using Maildir to store the
mail. Again, if you’re using mbox, please upgrade…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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