Table of Contents

Introducing Spam Spam & anti-Spam techniques Open relays Protecting email addresses Detecting Spam Installing SpamAssassin Configuration files Using SpamAssassin Bayesian filtering Look & feel Network tests Rules Improving filtering Performance Housekeeping Building an anti-spam Gateway email clients Choosing other Spam tools

About the Author

Alistair McDonald is a freelance IT consultant based in the UK. He has worked in IT for over 15 years and specializes in C++ and Perl development and IT infrastructure management. He is a strong advocate of open source, and has strong cross-platform skills. He prefers vim over vi, emacs over Xemacs or vim, and bash over ksh or csh. He is very much a family man and spends as much time as possible with his family enjoying life.