In order to sell some products, Symantec spreads GNU/Linux fear based on misinformation

This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Debian Lenny server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails.

However, allowing for anonymous comments also invited my site into a war against comment spam. My latest weapon to do the fighting for me in this war is Mollom.

Amavisd-new acts as a connecting point between Spamassassin, Clamav and Postfix. This is important to remember because much of the configuration that would seem to be done on Spamassasin directly, actually occurs in the amavisd-new configuration file.

I have totally gone off the deep end…Spam has made me so mad I have gone on a personal goal to cut the Spam on my servers to 0%…realistic, probably not. Die trying…yep that’s me.

Simple Perl Script To Do Mass Emailing From Lists Running Any Mail Agent On Linux Or Unix.

I used to receive around 5,000-7,000 spams daily on angsuman [at] taragana [dot] com email which is publicly available on the internet. It was consuming too many productive hours daily to fight spam. I decided to fight back. To reduce the spams I first made changes to my postfix configuration with the aim to stop most spams upfront.