Spam

I just updated Qmailadmin 1.2.11 for Etch amd64/i386 to include some changes : instead of a checkbox to enable/disable spam filtering on pop accounts, there is now a list to chose what to do (no filtering, marking spams, deleting spams, learn spam, learn ham). This allow anyone to easily train your bayesian filters. Spamassassin is now recommanded and will replace bogofilter in a near future Clamassassin replaces clamfilter.pl due to performance issues. Please DO update the /etc/procmailrc-* files during the upgrade to ensure virus are scanned.

Greylisting is very useful to avoid most of the incoming spam on your mail server. The Qmail packages shipped on Dotdeb have built-in MySQL-based greylisting. Here is how to enable it… Installation First of all, be sure to have Qmail installed from Dotdeb with a version number greater than 1.03-37.dotdeb.1. Then, since we’ll use a MySQL backend to share the greylisting database between several servers, be sure to have MySQL installed somewhere on your boxes. ...