SpamFightingTools

If you receive spam that is not tagged by spamassassin, you should report it, using "spamassassin -r < spamfile" this will submit the spam to Vipul's Razor, after removing the headers and report that spamassassin adds. You may need to register your Razor for this to work (see below).

Vipul's Razor

Now integrated into spamassassin.

See:

http://razor.sourceforge.net/

I installed the razor2 suite. It performs a checksum of incomming mail, then tests the checksum against a ring of anti-spam servers. I got the source tarfiles for razor-agents 2.14, razor-agents-sdk 2.03, and set them up with

razor agents had some modules that conflicted with stuff on astraeus, so I did:

perl Makefile.PL
make 
make test 
make UNINST=1 install

Then make and install razor-agents as ususal.

After installing, run razor-client as root to create a series of symlinks to the razor packages.

I also created a generic razor configuration for site-wide use:

# razor-admin -create -home=/etc/razor

Also, perl complained with this error every time I ran the clients:

Constant subroutine __need___va_list undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/stdarg.ph line 9.

so I commented out line 9 in the stdarg.ph file.

If you want to customize your installation of razor, follow steps 5 - 8 in the instalation guide:

http://razor.sourceforge.net/docs/install.html

This will allow you to report spam to the network.

NEW Right now we are using spamassassin + qmail-scanner with our new mail server. So now to filter the messages you must create a rule in your favorite mail client filtering if X-Spam-Status: Yes.

Cheo wrote a nice tutorial on setting up Thunderbird with spamassassin:

http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/mch/

Please See the VirusFightingTools wiki

-- Main.HumbertoOrtiz - 03 Oct 2002

-- Updated Jose R. Ortiz Ubarri 24 Jul 2003

comments:

Spam and Mailman --humberto, Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:01:05 -0400 reply
We've been getting a bunch of spam targeted to our mailing lists. You can cut down on the spam by adding a spam filter. In the mailman admin page for the list (http://lists.hpcf.upr.edu/mailman/admin/aabre-steering/privacy/spam), select privacy, then spam filters. Add a header filter "x-spam-status: yes" with action "Discard".