[OPLINTECH] E-mail Programs

[Aaron J. Bedra]

SpamAssassin is by far one of the best solutions out there.  During the
recent round of new spam, it is the only one (Commercial software
included) that flagged everything down and took care of things.  It got
through Symantec's filter and Trend Micro's filter, but SpamAssassin
still prevailed.  The preferred method is having a Linux mail gateway
running SpamAssassin that will pre-scan your mail for virus and spam
content, then forward that mail to your mail server of choice.  It acts
as the front line for filtering.  This also leaves room for another spam
solution on your mail server as a last line of defense.  If you combine
these things with clients such as Thunderbird or Outlook 2003 you really
can't go wrong.

If anyone has any further inquiries regarding Linux Spam Gateways please
feel free to give me a buzz.

Aaron J. Bedra
IT Specialist
Westerville Public Library
614-882-7277 x114
abedra at westervillelibrary.org
http://www.westervillelibrary.org



On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:12 -0500, Don Yarman wrote:
> On 11/29/05, Karen Perone <peroneka at oplin.org> wrote:
> > Call me old-fashioned, but I've been using Netscape's email program for
> > years. It has a great filtering program that you can set up to remove
> > the junk and it learns what to consider junk as you moved things to the
> > junk folder.
> 
> Netscape/Thunderbird are good at junk mail recognition.  One
> warning:  Symantec anti-virus will lock your mailbox if you receive
> a virus.  (At home, I had to set Symantec not to scan my
> Thunderbird Inbox, which kind of defeats the purpose of having
> anti-virus in the first place).
> 
> OPLIN has installed (but not yet enabled) SpamAssassin on the
> new mail server that we implemented November 11.  It will label
> potential junk messages for people with oplin.org email accounts.
> Those messages will still come through to you (OPLIN cannot filter
> content), but you can set up rules to send those messages into
> a particular folder.
> 
> --
>                   Don Yarman
>                   Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
>                   2323 West 5th Ave, Suite 130; Columbus OH 43204
>                   614.728.5252 | 614.728.5256 (fax)
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