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Stop SPAM in Postfix with Spamassassin

So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

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Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced

Spam filtering with Kmail

SPAM. It’s a dreadful word that causes many a computer user to yank out their hair and wish their service provider would do a better job of keeping SPAM out of your inbox. But that is not going to happen over night. So…it is up to the end user to make sure they have extra [...]

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Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, software

Create message filters in Claws Mail

You may have read my recent article about Claws Mail (”Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client.“). If you’ve given it a try you will have noticed just how powerful that email client is. It has a ton of features, and allows for some pretty serious power-user-friendly options.
One of the aspects of Claws Mail that [...]

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Categories: Email, Linux, Mac, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 6th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

How To Handle Bulk Spam As A Webmaster

If you are a webmaster you usually know what spam is. Blog owners experience spam usually in the form of comments, trackbacks or pings that spammer use to place links to their content on websites. These spammers can be classified as three different types. First the manual spammer who researches blogs in the niche and [...]

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Categories: Security, Spyware

  • Author: Melanie
  • Published: Jul 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Trap Spammers with Project Honey Pot

Junk mail is always a pain to deal with. Some junk mail may be stuff you actually sign up for and lost interest in. Spam, however, is stuff that you never signed up for and is often sent to you after some bot saw your email address on some site. Nobody like spam. The guy [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 29th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Email Extractor Software Droid Email Seeker

How to spammers fill their databases with email addresses? They usually buy them in bulk from companies that acquire them by other means. Other means can mean running search bots that crawl websites on the Internet to find new email addresses but also illegal methods like hacking into databases to retrieve all email addresses. You [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Use Bogofilter for better junk detection in Evolution

So you’re using the Linux operating system and you’re not concerned with viruses. But you still get SPAM – and plenty of it. With the Evolution groupware suite you have, by default, Spamassassin as your Junk filtering tool. For some this is enough. For others, howerver, it doesn’t cut it. For those that need more [...]

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, software

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