LinuxBeginner.org: Spam Filtering with Postfix, AMaViSd-new, and Spamassassin

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 29, 2003

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“Spam, it’s become the thorn in everyone’s side, flooding
mailboxes from home users to choking mail servers at the corporate
level. Spam accounts for nearly half of the traffic carried on the
Internet and it is only going to get worse.

“It can be fought with success using the right open source
tools, a little elbow grease, and a little maintenance after its
setup.

“The tools we used are Debian GNU/Linux, Postfix, amavisd-new,
spamassassin, and razor. We will also use Fetchmail to retrieve
mail from our isp and pass it to postfix. The combination creates a
strong e-mail gateway that will filter and strip spam from ever
entering your, or your companies mailboxes…”


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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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