Linux.com: Filter Spam with CanIt-PRO | Linux Today

Linux.com: Filter Spam with CanIt-PRO

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 21, 2005

“Despite the the passage of the CAN-SPAM Act, email users are
still subjected to vast quantities of spam and virus-laden
messages. Roaring Penguin’s CanIt-PRO is a Sendmail-based
application that helps block spam, viruses, phishing attempts, and
other nastiness. I found it to be one of the better commercial
Linux email filtering packages.

“Roaring Penguin makes packages for many Linux distributions,
and also provides source code–so it should be possible to run
CanIt-PRO on just about any Linux distribution. I installed the
product on a CentOS 4 system, using the packages for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4…”

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Malaysia: Revving the SpamAssassin Engine
(Sep 06, 2004)

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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