The Linux operating system is typically immune to viruses attached to email. But it is not immune to SPAM. Left unfiltered your inbox would quickly fill up with more SPAM than you care to delete. What is worse is owning a mail server and not protecting your users from a barrage of SPAM.
By employing Spamassassin [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 1st, 2009
- Comments: 1
Use Spamassassin for better SPAM detection
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