| Description |
1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 <ul><li> Step-by-step junk mail filtering with Procmail </li><li> Protecting Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, Microsoft Exchange, and Lotus Domino servers from spam </li><li> Making the most of native MTA anti-spam features, including whitelists/blacklists, DNS black hole services, and header checking </li><li> Distributed checksum filtering solutions, including Vipul's Razor and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse </li><li> McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino </li><li> McAfee SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange </li><li> Implementing and managing SpamAssassin </li><li> Implementing SMTP AUTH, providing effective outbound SMTP authentication and relaying with any mail client; and STARTTLS, encrypting outbound mail content, user names, and passwords </li><li> Sender verification techniques, including challenge/response, special use addresses, and sender compute </li><li> Anti-spam solutions for Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Messenger, and Unix mail clients </li></ul> 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. <br /> © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-374) and index |
| Audience |
Scholarly & Professional Addison Wesley Professional |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Spam filtering (Electronic mail)
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Spam (Electronic mail)
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Spam (Electronic mail)
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Spam filtering (Electronic mail)
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Electrical & Computer Engineering.
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Engineering & Applied Sciences.
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Telecommunications.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nielsen, Dale (Dale P.), author.
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| LC no. |
2004112840 |
| ISBN |
0131467166 |
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9780131467163 |
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