) for Unix system administrators using the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, or qmail mail servers, helping administrators make the right integration decision for their particular environments. It covers concrete advice on how to: *Customize SpamAssassin's rules, and even create new ones Train SpamAssassin's Bayesian classifier, a statistical engine for detecting spam, to optimize it for the sort of email that you typically receive, *Block specific addresses, hosts, and domains using third-party blacklists like the one maintained by Spamcop.net., *Whitelist known good sources of email, so that messages from clients, coworkers, and friends aren't inadvertently lost, *Configure SpamAssassin to work with newer spam-filtering methods such as Hashcash (www hashcash.org) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Sys admins, network administrators, and ISPs pay for spam with hours of experimentation and tedious junk email management, frayed user tempers, and their sanity. SpamAssassin, together with this essential book, give you the tools you need to take back your organization's inboxes. "Detailed, accurate and informative--recommended for spam-filtering beginners and experts alike."
--Justin Mason, SpamAssassin development team
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