Re: [SLUG] Sendmail SPAM mail filtering

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 21:33:58 EST


On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:34:27AM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 09:33, Matt Miller wrote:
> > Any recommendations on SPAM mail filters for a couple of Sendmail relays
> > (other than the FEATURE(`dnsbl') Realtime Blackhole List)?
>

<snip>

> If you can deal with piping everything through procmail, "Spam Assassin"
> is probably the way to go. (http://spamassassin.taint.org/) It
> combines keyword matching with Vipul's Razor to catch most SPAM. It
> requires very new versions of Perl and all the associated modules
> though, so unless you have a recently installed system, you can expect
> lots of package installing and/or upgrading before you'll get it to
> work, which is why I don't use it at the moment.
>
> Vipul's Razor itself (http://razor.sourceforge.net/) and Junkfilter
> (http://junkfilter.zer0.org/) are other procmail-based SPAM filters that
> can be used together to catch a lot of SPAM. I personally use a
> combination of these two and catch about 99% of the SPAM with an
> extremely low false-positive ratio. (Perhaps 1 out of 1000 false
> positives at most.)
>

Also, Spambouncer. Similar to junkfilter.

Paul



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