CrossNodes: SpamAssassin and Amavisd: Go Ninja On Your UBE Woes

“The bad news is, it’s SpamAssassin, not SpammerAssassin. The
good news is it kills spam quite effectively, and fits nicely into
an anti-spam, anti-virus gateway. This article, which shows how to
use SpamAssassin with Postfix, is the first in a series on building
an anti-spam and anti-virus gateway. This gateway works equally
well for a single PC, or for a large network, and it’s built of
four components:

• “Postfix
• “SpamAssassin
• “Amavisd-new
• “ClamAV

“Prerequisite: An existing Postfix server, that is running well
and happily. The other bits are add-ons to Postfix. They work just
fine with other mail transfer agents (MTAs) like qmail, Exim, and
Sendmail, but this series will center around Postfix. “You should
also save yourself a batch of spams for testing…”

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