A rule in SpamAssassin is scoring email sent in 2010 as "grossly in the future" increasing the chances of false positives. A fix has been pushed into the update channel.
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Mollom: A solution to comment spam
However, allowing for anonymous comments also invited my site into a war against comment spam. My latest weapon to do the fighting for me in this war is Mollom.
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Insecurity Through Obscurity
Windows renders E-mail chaotic and the U.S. electrical grid gets cracked. Nothing beats a brand-new explanation from Microsoft itself about the impact of its poor security skills, which continue to this date.
Read more »Quarantine Spam with Amavisd
Amavisd-new acts as a connecting point between Spamassassin, Clamav and Postfix. This is important to remember because much of the configuration that would seem to be done on Spamassasin directly, actually occurs in the amavisd-new configuration file.
Read more »Set Up Virus and Spam Scanning on Ubuntu 8.10
One of the most frustrating problems with setting up any mail server is the configuration required for anti-virus protection and Spam checking. Amavisd-new provides an excellent tool to help in setting that up. This is a step-by-step process in providing your mail server, the example is Ubuntu 8.10, with the ability to scan all incoming mail for viruses and Spam.
Read more »cRAZY mAD wITH spam
I have totally gone off the deep end…Spam has made me so mad I have gone on a personal goal to cut the Spam on my servers to 0%…realistic, probably not. Die trying…yep that’s me.
Read more »Emacs Gnus: Filter Spam
"(draft for an upcoming book called Wicked Cool Emacs)
Ah, spam, the bane of our Internet lives. There is no completely reliable way to automatically filter spam. Spam messages that slip through the filters and perfectly legitimate messages that get labelled spam are all part of the occupational hazards of using the Internet..."
Read more »Using Perl To Handle Mass Mailing In Linux Or Unix
Simple Perl Script To Do Mass Emailing From Lists Running Any Mail Agent On Linux Or Unix.
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6 Simple & Safe Postfix Changes for Over 95% Spam Reduction
I used to receive around 5,000-7,000 spams daily on angsuman [at] taragana [dot] com email which is publicly available on the internet. It was consuming too many productive hours daily to fight spam. I decided to fight back. To reduce the spams I first made changes to my postfix configuration with the aim to stop most spams upfront.
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