- Paperback: 220 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (Oct 7 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1904811124
- ISBN-13: 978-1904811121
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,170,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Book Description
Spam has become a serious problem for businesses, wasting employees’ time and costing millions of dollars. To combat this growing problem, a number of applications and services have been developed. SpamAssassin is one of the most effective and popular open source solutions. SpamAssassin is a powerful and flexibile tool, but it's only as good as it’s set up and configuration. This book is a comprehensive guide to the features, options, and implementation strategies you need to get the most of out SpamAssassin. In Detail As a busy administrator, you know Spam is a major distraction in today’s network. The effects range from inappropriate content arriving in the mailboxes up to contact email addresses placed on a website being deluged with unsolicited mail, causing valid enquiries and sales leads to be lost and wasting employee time. The perception of the problem of spam is as big as the reality. In response to the growing problem of spam, a number of free and commercial applications and services have been developed to help network administrators and email users combat spam. It’s up to you to choose and then get the most out of an antispam solution. Free to use, flexible, and effective, SpamAssassin has become the most popular open source antispam application. Its unique combination of power and flexibility make it the right choice. This book will now help you set up and optimize SpamAssassin for your network. What you will learn from this book This comprehensive and detailed guide answers all your SpamAssassin questions. You will learn about:
* Spam detection and prevention
* Installing and running SpamAssassin
* Using Bayesian Filtering
* Configuring mail clients
* Rewriting spam messages
* Integrating SpamAssassin with external services
* Blacklisting and whitelisting
* Increasing Performance
* Using SpamAssassin as a service
* Using SpamAssassin with Fetchmail, postfix, sendmail, Exim, Qmail, procmail
* SpamAssassin rules Approach Written specifically for busy network and system administrators, the book is a detailed and practical guide to implementing the right antispam solution for your network and your business requirements. You’ll go from a detailed walk through of initial set up, to advanced configuration options like Bayesian filtering, listing, rewriting, and rules. The book shows how to optimize SpamAssassin for all major mail servers and clients. Who this book is written for If you are a network or system administrator and you’re either using or evaluating SpamAssassin, this book will increase your understanding and transform your productivity.
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.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.ca
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
5 reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Well written and up to date
Feb 7 2005
Format:Paperback
This excellent book is the only title I've found that covers the latest version of the SpamAssassin. It is an easy introduction
to installing, configuring, and fine tuning SpassAssassin, but it thoroughly covers all the topics I'll ever need to know about. I'm a beginner to SpamAssassin, and now feel like an expert! Even friends who already knew SpamAssassin well find themselves looking at this when they get stuck.
I found the book had plenty of coverage of SURBL. There's a whole chapter dedicated to using network tests to check URL blacklists.
Highly recommended.
to installing, configuring, and fine tuning SpassAssassin, but it thoroughly covers all the topics I'll ever need to know about. I'm a beginner to SpamAssassin, and now feel like an expert! Even friends who already knew SpamAssassin well find themselves looking at this when they get stuck.
I found the book had plenty of coverage of SURBL. There's a whole chapter dedicated to using network tests to check URL blacklists.
Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Woulda been 5 stars ...
July 13 2005
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
... except that the book is full of typos and formatting mistakes. Don't attempt to use it without access to the SpamAssassin documentation. Once I got past that, the book is pretty useful and informative.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
SURBL is the key idea
Dec 3 2004
Format:Paperback
SpamAssassin is a common and free antispam method that is comprehensively described by this book. McDonald is writing for a sysadmin who wants an effective method to halt spam. To be sure, he cautions that SA is not 100% effective. He gives concise explanations of how to install and run it.
The most recent version surveyed here is 3.0. And there is one key innovation in it, and also in the earlier 2.63 version. Namely what it calls SURBL = Spam URI Real time Blacklist. A powerful idea. You block a message as spam, if its body has URIs in an SURBL. It should be said that it took the SA coders a long time to recognise and implement this idea.
Another issue is how to generate an SURBL. Here, the author just says that you can get these from external sources, like Spamhaus, just like you would for an RBL. More discussion here might have been helpful.
There is little recognition in the book that the SURBL method has significant advantages over a Bayesian, the latter of which gets extensive coverage. The SUBRL method is faster in extracting URIs from a message body and then comparing against the SURBL, than in comparing the message's words to the corpus of the Bayesian. All the more so if the latter word comparision is restricted to words that are not in HTML tags and are visible to the reader.
Also, if the SUBRL has domains that are definitely considered to be spammer domains, then using it is deterministic. Unlike the stochastic general nature of SA's approach, which totes up a spam likelihood score. The deterministic aspect is far stronger.
Plus, there is no need for regular manual training, as with the Bayesian - either at the user or sysadmin level. But a casual reader will miss all this. The SURBL is given minimal description.
The most recent version surveyed here is 3.0. And there is one key innovation in it, and also in the earlier 2.63 version. Namely what it calls SURBL = Spam URI Real time Blacklist. A powerful idea. You block a message as spam, if its body has URIs in an SURBL. It should be said that it took the SA coders a long time to recognise and implement this idea.
Another issue is how to generate an SURBL. Here, the author just says that you can get these from external sources, like Spamhaus, just like you would for an RBL. More discussion here might have been helpful.
There is little recognition in the book that the SURBL method has significant advantages over a Bayesian, the latter of which gets extensive coverage. The SUBRL method is faster in extracting URIs from a message body and then comparing against the SURBL, than in comparing the message's words to the corpus of the Bayesian. All the more so if the latter word comparision is restricted to words that are not in HTML tags and are visible to the reader.
Also, if the SUBRL has domains that are definitely considered to be spammer domains, then using it is deterministic. Unlike the stochastic general nature of SA's approach, which totes up a spam likelihood score. The deterministic aspect is far stronger.
Plus, there is no need for regular manual training, as with the Bayesian - either at the user or sysadmin level. But a casual reader will miss all this. The SURBL is given minimal description.
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
