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Extending SpamAssassin and Amavis

Posted by Zonk on from the they-look-totally-natural dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Spam filtering solutions are a necessary evil in today's e-mail climate. There are many different tools and systems available for the filtering and removal of spam e-mail. Tools like SpamAssassin and more detailed agents, such as Amavis use a variety of different methods to identify and capture spam. An IBM article shows how you can extend SpamAssassin and Amavis, providing additional filtering facilities to lower the amount of spam hitting e-mail boxes."

3 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. I said it once, and I'll say it again... by siyavash · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know this solution isn't fit for "average user" but I use white list aliases, when I write my email in some website or whereever, I do @domain.com , as soon as I start to get SPAM, two things happen :

    1. I know WHERE the SPAM is comming from and who rat my email out.
    2. I can close that specific alias and no more SPAM.

    Using the above technique, I see ZERO SPAM... like good old days of emailing.

  2. Flexible smtp daemon? by r0.ini · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you need a real flexible smtp daemon, and can program in perl, I would recommend qpsmtd. Give it a try, you can create your own plugins (to handle spam or whatever you need) so easily you won't believe it.

  3. Re:Our just use GMail... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    GMail supports IMAP.