| Linux Anti-Spam/Virus Tools |
| This course investigates the prevalent open source anti-spam tool "SpamAssassin" and the anti-virus tool "ClamAV". |
| An overview of how they work and an explanation of how to configure and integrate these tools with your mailserver (Sendmail or Postfix) is presented. Following this will be a study of maintaining and training in these tools; this will become an essential part of protecting your users from SPAM and e-mail viruses. |
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- SPAM filtering overview
- Challenge/response system
- Greylisting systems
- Bayesian systems
- E-mail message structure
- SpamAssassin overview
- Installing SpamAssassin
- Invoking SpamAssassin with .procmail.
- Using spamc/spamd
- Configuring SpamAssassin
- SpamAssassin Rules
- Training SpamAssassin
- Integrating SpamAssassin with sendmail
- Integrating SpamAssassin with postfix
- Virus scanning overview
- ClamAV overview
- Installing ClamAV
- Configuring ClamAV
- Using ClamAV
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| Audience: |
| Any Mail Administrator responsible for reducing the amount of SPAM delivered as well as scanning for viruses prior to the mail arriving at the end-user mailbox. . |
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| Course Benefits: |
| The sendmail/postfix administrator will be able to control SPAM and virus attachments alleviating the end-user of most SPAM and virus attachments |
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