Florian Cramer on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:12:01 +0100 (CET)


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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> admin note/RFC: 'antispam' services and nettime


Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2003 um 00:57:02 Uhr (-0500) schrieb
nettime's_janitors:

> thoughts?

Nettimers looking for a working, non-intrusive spam filter should have a
serious look at SpamAssassin <http://spamassassin.org/>, a free software
tool (under the Perl Artistic License) available for Unix-like operating
systems and, in combination with a local POP3 proxy, for Windows
(see <http://mcd.perlmonk.org/pop3proxy/>). For MacOS X installation
instructions, see <http://rhumba.pair.com/ben/docs/sa.html>.

Among network administrators, SpamAssassin is widely considered the only
working solution against spam. As it is written in Perl, it creates
high CPU loads though and is a solution for client PCs rather than for
mail servers themselves.

On Unix-like operating systems, I would recommend using SpamAssassin in
conjunction with procmail, i.e. filter mailing lists through procmail
first and only the rest with SpamAssassin, like:

:0fw
| spamassassin

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$HOME/Mail/junk

-F
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