Slamming Spam - A Guide for System Administrators

Real Anti-Spam Help for System Administrators

In Slamming Spam, two spam fighters show you how to fight back-and win. Unlike most spam books, this one is written specifically for in-the-trenches system administrators: professionals who need hands-on solutions for detecting, managing, and deterring spam in Unix/Linux and/or Microsoft Windows environments.

The authors offer deep, administrator-focused coverage of the most valuable open-source tools for reducing spam's impact in the enterprise-especially SpamAssassin. Drawing on their extensive experience in developing and implementing anti-spam tools, the authors present expert insights into every leading approach to fighting spam, including Bayesian filtering, distributed checksum filtering, and email client filtering.

Coverage includes

• Step-by-step junk mail filtering with Procmail
• Protecting Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, Microsoft Exchange, and Lotus Domino servers from spam
• Making the most of native MTA anti-spam features, including whitelists/blacklists, DNS black hole services, and header checking
• Distributed checksum filtering solutions, including Vipul's Razor and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse
• McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino
• McAfee SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange
• Implementing and managing SpamAssassin
• Implementing SMTP AUTH, providing effective outbound SMTP authentication and relaying with any mail client; and STARTTLS, encrypting outbound mail content, user names, and passwords
• Sender verification techniques, including challenge/response, special use addresses, and sender compute
• Anti-spam solutions for Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Messenger, and Unix mail clients

Whatever your IT environment and mail platform, Slamming Spam's defense in-depth strategies can help you dramatically reduce spam and all its attendant costs-IT staff time, network/computing resources, and user productivity.