free antispam for Linux

[Jason Shein]

On September 21, 2007 07:56:26 pm Scott Elcomb wrote:
> On 9/21/07, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I think Lennard wrote once that he has his email since 1994 and does
> > not care about spam?
> >
> > What was that software you are using?
> >
> > I need to convince my boss that there is free software of high quality
> > around, for Linux, for protecting from spam.
>
> I'm not sure what Lennard (Lennart?) is running, but SpamAssassin is a
> popular solution.  IIRC, It's installed by default on a number of the
> more popular distributions.  (Red Hat based systems have been doing it
> for a few years now I think, but I'm fairly certain I've also seen it
> in other distros as well.)
>
> Also worth a look is Clam AntiVirus - I'm fairly certain these two
> projects can work together to create robust mail servers on top of
> Linux.
>
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/
> http://www.clamav.net/

For an all-in-one solution, take a look at Mailwatch and Mailscanner

http://www.mailscanner.info/
http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/doku.php

Together, these prove to be a powerful solution, and provides ease of 
maintenance.

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