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 [...]

Tags: Email, email filtering, Postfix, spam, SPAM scoring
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced

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 [...]

Tags: Bogofilter, HAM, kmail, spam, spamassassin
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, software

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 [...]

Tags: claws mail, defining filter actions, email filtering, spam
Categories: Email, Linux, Mac, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

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 [...]

Tags: comment spam, moderate spam, ping spam, spam, spammer, trackback spam, wordpress spam
Categories: Security, Spyware

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 [...]

Tags: Email, email spam, project honey pot, spam, spammers
Categories: Email

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 [...]

Tags: droid email seeker, Email, email addresses, email database, email extractor, Email Extractor Software, emails, spam, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

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 [...]

Tags: Bogofilter, Evolution, HAM, Linux, spam
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, software