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Anti-Spam Tool Kit book excerpt: Fighting spam defensively
This Anti-Spam Tool Kit excerpt looks at address and mail server protection, as well as protecting network hosts and nodes from becoming zombie spam-spewers. Tip
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Get all email headers using LotusScript
To prevent repeat spam, the service provider likes us to send the complete headers of the original email so they can analyze it and deal with it -- impossible in Lotus Notes R5. Tip
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Bypass filters -- Get out of jail
To make our lives easier we created a new filter condition for each blocking rule on our inbound SMTP servers. We call this our "Get out of jail free" card Tip
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FTC works on spam front
Spam filtering continues to vie for the post of "Job #1" in IT shops worldwide. Recently, U.S. FTC commissioners hosted a two-day summit to grapple with e-mail authentication, once seemingly poised as a potent solution for the spam problem. SearchDom... Article
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Multiple quarantine databases
I've created multiple quarantine databases and then set up my server rules so that the rules put certain mail in different quarantine databases. Tip
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How spam-fighting technology almost cost me a client
How an overzealous approach to spam-fighting caused problems, and four tips to make sure the same thing doesn't happen to you. Tip
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Stopping spam on both sides of the pond
International officials appear confident that they can make a difference in the spam war, and hope that the creation of a new multinational working group can help enforce laws across national boundaries. News
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Chapter 5: Blocking spammers with DNS blacklists
This chapter from the book The Anti-Spam Tool Kit explains what DNS blacklists are, how they work and how to implement them on a mail server. Tip
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Spammers using SPF to their advantage
Few enterprises are using the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) to certify that the e-mail addresses used in messages are real, but spammers are taking advantage of the protocol to appear more legitimate. Experts say SPF only helps to prevent spam when u... News