Fighting Spam

HOWTO Documents

• SpamassassinSetup - How to setup spamassassin in CS and how to use mailservices.uwaterloo.ca to for your spam processing
  See Also
  • http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
• Thunderbird Junk Mail Setup - CS
  See Also
  • http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/spam-howto.html
  • http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/extra/using-junk-control.html
  • http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Dealing_with_Junk_E-mail
  • ImageSpam - Thunderbird - how to filter out embedded images
• Filtering Your Email - IST - Covers Spam filters for most applications
• How to Reduce Spam - IST
• UW End User Interface for Junk Mail Filtering - Opt In/OUT - IST

Mail Services Documents

• Mail Services Home Page - IST -Main mailservices web site - many spam documents
• UW and Black Lists - Are you getting reports of Rejected Email? - IST
• View your rejected email history - IST
• How to use mailservices in conjunction with your UW mail server - IST

UW Spam Statistics

• IST Spam Statistics - Spam Charts covering the last year
• Daily mail rejected by uwaterloo.ca cluster

Implementation Overviews and FAQ

• Mail Checking Facility Framework Documents - IST
• Mail 101 -- How Mail to UW Addresses is Filtered - IST
• Greylist Implementation - IST - Fighting Spam with GreyListing
• GreylistingPolicy - CS - how CS handles GreyListing - and how to Opt Out
• GreyListing FAQ - IST
• MFCF/CSCF FAQ on dealing with spam
• Questions about SpamAssassin (with answers) - IST - Dawn Keenan
• XhierSpamAssassin - using more then one version of spamassassin on an Xhiered machine
• Email Attachment Restrictions - IST - Restricted Email Attachments

User Examples

• Spam Filtering - Stephen Mann

Spamassassin Resources

• SpamAssassin Home Page
• Greylisting Home Page

Is your computer sending Spam ?

• If your computer is infected with a Virus/Trojan it might be a spam relay!
• Read this article
  • See section 5. They will be serving organized crime
• Try a few Google searches for: virus trojan spam "organized crime" - You REALLY want to read this!
  • There are increasing numbers of Virus and Trojan horse programs that contain spam email servers
  • Google for terms like "spam relay", "smtp relay","smtp server" or "sends spam" on symantec.com
• Use this link Security Tools and Procedures - it has tools and procedures to help keep your computer clean!

-- Mike Gore, Nov 2005