Removing the Spam: Email Processing and Filtering (Addison-Wesley Networking Basics Series) - Softcover

Mulligan, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201379570 ISBN 13: 9780201379570

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1999

Synopsis

Written for network and system administrators, this concise, practical guide offers step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring an effective email system for your organization. The specific book focus is on the growing problem of spam--unwanted electronic junk mail. This book shows how to utilize mail-filtering tools and techniques to keep your system and users as spam-free as possible. Centered around real-world problems and issues, Removing the Spam will save you hours of frustration as you get your email system up and running. You will find in-depth coverage of major email systems and subsystems--sendmail, Procmail, Majordomo, and SmartList--and essential information about the following: *How to stop spam at the mail server and user levels *The most simple and effective way of generating the sendmail configuration file *Maintaining your sendmail configuration *Building and managing simple sendmail aliases and filters *Virtual domains *Filtering and sorting mail with Procmail *Procmail recipe files *Creating and administrating automated and manual mailing lists with Majordomo and SmartList *How to spot and combat mailing list abuse by spammers and list terrorists The book's numerous practical examples (compatible with Solaris and FreeBSD) include controlling the procmailrc file, sorting mail, working with auto-responders, and many others. With this book you will be well equipped to install and run an efficient email system that won't be overrun by spam. 0201379570B04062001

About this title

About the Author

Geoff Mulligan is a founder of Geocast Network Systems and works on researching emerging network technologies and network and system security products such as telecommuting tools, firewalls, and encryption. Prior to this, he was a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems and was principal architect for Sun's premiere firewall product--SunScreen--and a founding member of the Internet Commerce Group. While at Sun, Geoff took a sabbatical to help start USA.NET and create the NetAddress product, a permanent email address. Before joining Sun, Geoff worked at Digital's Network Systems Laboratory developing the DEC SEAL firewall and Networking courseware, and researching email systems and technology. He spent 11 years in the U.S. Air Force working at the Pentagon (he brought the first system in the Pentagon up on the ARPANET) on computer and network security, building local and wide area networks and teaching computer science at the Air Force Academy. Geoff received his M.S. in Computer Science in 1988 from the University of Denver and his B.S. in Computer Science in 1979 from the United States Air Force Academy. He holds patents in network security and electronic mail technologies.

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From the Back Cover

Written for network and system administrators, this concise, practical guide offers step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring an effective email system for your organization. The specific book focus is on the growing problem of spam--unwanted electronic junk mail. This book shows how to utilize mail-filtering tools and techniques to keep your system and users as spam-free as possible.

Centered around real-world problems and issues, Removing the Spam will save you hours of frustration as you get your email system up and running. You will find in-depth coverage of major email systems and subsystems--sendmail, Procmail, Majordomo, and SmartList--and essential information about the following:

• How to stop spam at the mail server and user levels
• The most simple and effective way of generating the sendmail configuration file
• Maintaining your sendmail configuration
• Building and managing simple sendmail aliases and filters
• Virtual domains
• Filtering and sorting mail with Procmail
• Procmail recipe files
• Creating and administrating automated and manual mailing lists with Majordomo and SmartList
• How to spot and combat mailing list abuse by spammers and list terrorists

The book's numerous practical examples (compatible with Solaris and FreeBSD) include controlling the procmailrc file, sorting mail, working with auto-responders, and many others.

With this book you will be well equipped to install and run an efficient email system that won't be overrun by spam.

0201379570B04062001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201379570
• ISBN 13: 9780201379570
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208