Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 24041
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2002/3/6-7 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:24041 Activity:very high
3/6     Are most sodans getting a ton of spam now? It seems spammers have
        ramped up their efforts at filling up our mailboxes.
        \_ We should install SpamAssassin
                             \_ What is this?
                                \_ http://us.spamassassin.org
        \_ Enhance Your Sex Life!
        \_ Yes I'm getting more spam than before.
        \_ I'm getting spam from tom.
           \_ .hushlogin
        \_ I don't get any spam via soda but my home server is auto-crushing
           plenty via black holes, bad reverse lookups, etc.  Even so, a piece
           or two escapes filtering each day.  I've been giving out bogus
           mail aliases and just disabling them when the spam load gets too
           high so that helps a lot.
           \_ Can we do the same thing on soda?
        \_ don't know if this is relevant but does writing your email
           address on webpages or newsgroups as name at domain dot com
           versus name@domain.com make a difference?
           \_ no. it's trivial for a perl or other script to look for all
              obvious patterns and convert.
        \_ normally i get 3-4 msgs/day, but today i got like 35.
        \_ recently I've been getting a lot of email about some constitution
           to some campus organization...
        \_ I used to get NOTHING, now I get about 2 junk email a day.  Is
           there anyway root can set up filter on the server side?
        \_ yes, one of the main benefits of keeping this account was lack
        of spam, someone get on this! -bemybitch
                                --kngharv (playing with spambouncer right now)
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Using its 25 rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email. Note: This is the home page for the main open-source SpamAssassin distribution. Packages downloaded here contain UNIX-oriented front-end scripts. Versions for Windows, commercial versions, and other front-ends, are listed on 26 this site. If you were sent here because you received an e-mail message which was modified by SpamAssassin, please go to 27 this page. The spam-identification tactics used include: * header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it. Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application. It accomplishes filtering without this knowledge, as much as possible. The distribution provides a command line tool to perform filtering, along with Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of perl modules which allow SpamAssassin to be used in 31 wide range of products. SpamAssassin is in the process of becoming an 33 Apache Software Foundation top-level project. We are currently undergoing 35 incubation at the 36 ASF. In the meantime, the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. Features * Wide-spectrum: SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one aspect which they can craft their messages to work around. As a result, it's not limited to the traditional local-delivery-to-spool case; This means that SpamAssassin support is available for a variety of mail systems -- traditional procmail, a Mail::Audit plugin, 38 qmail, 39 sendmail, 40 Postfix, 41 many others.
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