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Written for network and system administrators, this concise, practicalguide offers step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring aneffective email system for your organization. The specific book focus ison the growing problem of spam--unwanted electronic junk mail. Thisbook shows how to utilize mail-filtering tools and techniques to keep yoursystem and users as spam-free as possible.Centered around real-world problems and issues, Removing the Spamwill save you hours of frustration as you get your email system up andrunning. You will find in-depth coverage of major email systems andsubsystems--sendmail, Procmail, Majordomo, and SmartList--andessential information about the following:How to stop spam at the mail server and user levelsThe most simple and effective way of generating the sendmail configuration fileMaintaining your sendmail configurationBuilding and managing simple sendmail aliases and filtersVirtual domainsFiltering and sorting mail with ProcmailProcmail recipe filesCreating and administrating automated and manual mailing lists with Majordomo and SmartListHow to spot and combat mailing list abuse by spammers and list terroristsThe book's numerous practical examples (compatible with Solaris andFreeBSD) include controlling the procmailrc file, sorting mail, workingwith auto-responders, and many others.With this book you will be well equipped to install and run an efficientemail system that won't be overrun by spam.