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How to implement spam filtering or spam blocking on your server.
These spam filtering applications should function whatever your operating system.
http://www.postarmor.com/ (Java)
http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/
http://jspamfilter.com/ (Java)
http://www.logsat.com/SpamFilter/
http://www.habeas.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpmntr/
(POSIX, uses Markov model)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spambayes/
(Pythons)
http://www.lyris.com/products/mailshield/server/
http://www.ima.com/iems/aspam.html
http://www.hexamail.com/hexamailguard/
(Windows/Linux)
http://www.bondedsender.com/
http://assp.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mailshell.com/mail/client/oem2.html/step/module
http://www.habeas.com/services/swe.htm
(Sender Warranted Email)
http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/
(Pythons, distributed)
http://www.spammanager.com/
http://paidstamp.com/
http://mini.net/tcl/3901 (TCL)
http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=115
(Squirrel Mail)
Perl (Perl is also available here and here)
http://razor.sourceforge.net/
(distributed)
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/spam.html
http://www.river.com/tools/blackberries/
http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/disspam/
http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage/
http://www.xisp.net/notespam/
http://plumeria.vmth.ucdavis.edu/~saintly/zfilter/
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mail/Mail-SpamTest-Bayesian-0.01.readme
(Bayes)
http://www.tycho.org/spamradar/
(not yet ready)
http://plumeria.vmth.ucdavis.edu/~saintly/zfilter/
http://adamspiers.org/computing/parp/
http://search.cpan.org/author/DAGOLDEN/Mail-Classifier-0.10/
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These solutions should work with most UNIX (and POSIX) platforms.
If you wish to use procmail or other applications to filter individual mail
boxes see: Unix Client Side Spam Filters
http://rblcheck.sourceforge.net/
http://www.blars.org/mod_access_rbl.html
(For Apache)
http://www.samiam.org/spam/index.html
http://www.nmt.edu/~mfisk/style.cgi?unixtools/mailfilt.html
http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/
http://www.island-resort.com/sm.htm
ftp://ftp.media.mit.edu/pub/agents/interface-agents/MAXIMS/
http://www.abuse.net/bmtp/
http://spamassassin.org/ (track sources
of spam: http://www.unicom.com/sw/spamtrak/)
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcprules.html
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html
http://www.dnsbliab.com/work.html
http://tmda.net/
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/abuse/antispam-stuff/email.html
http://www.mcfsoftware.com/simpletextfilter/
http://www.oitc.com/EIMS/Filters.html
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/abuse/antispam-stuff/email.html
http://www.jak.com/
http://www.postini.com/services/
http://www.marshalsoftware.com/issues/spam.asp
http://www.isux.com/projects/
http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/endorsements.html
(Products that can use the RBL)
http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/
(http://e-scribe.com/osx/mailfilter/
- how to use with OS X)
http://www.jsm-net.demon.co.uk/blackmail/blackmail.html
http://www.kallisys.com/mac/
(Mac)
http://www.tycho.org/spamradar/
http://mach3.osirusoft.com/mirror
(IPTables script)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spfilter/
(Mirrors: http://spfilter.openrbl.org/,
http://mirror.bliab.com/spfilter/)
http://www.tech-mavens.com/MavenFilter/
http://www.scanmail-software.com/
http://iland.net/~ckennedy/blackhole.shtml
http://jguellec.free.fr/program/perl/clean_mail/clean_mail_english.htm
(clean up mail spools)
http://dial-spam-block.sourceforge.net/
http://www.enderunix.org/index.php?tab=software&softname=spamguard
(for Qmail, Sendmail, Postfix)
http://messagewall.org/
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/sauce/
http://sd.inodes.org/
http://p-nand-q.com/shicks.htm
http://www.roble.com/docs/spamrep_today_byuser
, http://www.roble.com/docs/spamrep_today
(Filtering Reports)
http://crm114.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ifile/
(Uses Bayes Theorem. Database for ifile: http://www2.picante.com:81/~gtaylor/spam/)
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ifile/ASS/
http://www.catb.org/~esr/bogofilter/
(Bayes)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamprobe/
(Bayes)
http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/spam-stat.el
(For GNU. I know, GNU is not UNIX)
http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/
http://www.munts.com/spamfilter/spamfilter.html
(OpenBSD)
http://www.eridani.co.uk/MailStripper/
(SMTP proxy)
http://expaminator.sourceforge.net/
(Bayes)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sorbs/
(checks incoming servers for open relays and proxies)
http://grimlock.angmar.com/smtpblock/
(checks incoming servers against DNSBLs, then tests them)
http://spamfilter.nl.linux.org/
http://www.eleven.de/products/expurgate/
http://bmf.sourceforge.net/ (Bayes)
http://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/
(distributed)
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/
(distributed)
http://mail-abuse.org/vtf/dccbeta.html
(distributed)
http://lexx.shinn.net/cmeclax/nilsimsa.html
(distributed)
http://www.bebits.com/app/3055
(BeOS)
http://www.networkdweebs.com/products/dspam/
(Bayes)
http://www.eridani.co.uk/MailStripper/
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http://www.ima.com/
http://www.sica.com/freestuf/scsmfilt.htm
http://www.cmsconnect.com/Praetor/prMain.htm
http://www.software602.com/products/ls/
http://imgate.meiway.com/
http://www.tech-mavens.com/MavenFilter/
http://www.bcwaresystems.com/nospam/
(Win2k/XP)
http://www.j-bg.demon.co.uk/
http://www.ezmts.org/
http://www.rockliffe.com/products/mailsite/
http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercury.htm
http://www.duketown.com/pinjo/
http://mailenable.com/
http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html
(Using Spam Assassin with Windows)
http://www.policypatrol.com/PolicyPatrolEnterprise.htm
(Exchange/Lotus Domino)
http://www.dciseries.com/products/imail/
http://www.mimesweeper.com/info/spam/keyissues_spam_proactive.asp
(Windows 2000 upwards)
http://www.matthew-jones.com/publish/index.php/article/articleview/28/1/9/
(VPOP3)
http://www.spambolt.com/
http://www.dataenter.com/products/xwall.htm
http://www.gfi.com/mes/
http://www.cdolive.net/download/SMTPTransportEvent-RBLBlocking.zip
http://www.vamsoft.com/
http://www.nemx.com/products/powerpac/
http://www.appriver.com/arm/exchange.htm
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/email/smem/evaluate/overview.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/ti/beta.asp
("Titanium")
http://www.eleven.de/products/expurgate/
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Filtering add-ons to specific mail server applications and instructions on how to filter spam with specific servers.
http://www.duh.org/spamblock/
http://www.jsm-net.demon.co.uk/blackmail/blackmail.html
http://www.lyris.com/products/mailshield/
http://www.digitalanswers.org/check_local/
http://www.scanmail-software.com/
http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage/
http://opensource.confusticate.com/rbl-milter/
http://grimlock.angmar.com/smtpblock/
http://www.megacity.org/software.html
http://www.canit.ca/
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/
http://www.gtoal.com/spam/sendmail.html
http://www.cs.niu.edu/~rickert/cf/
http://blue-labs.org/software/Bmilter/
http://tweegy.demon.nl/projects/spammilt/
http://www.bsmdevelopment.com/Products/VFilterDL.html
http://www.dansie.net/anti_spam.html
http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/spamfilters.html
http://www.duh.org/pmilter/ (Milter,
in Perl)
http://www.linuxmailmanager.com/tantalus.html
(Milter, Perl, alleviates dictionary attacks)
http://www.megacity.org/software_downloads/spamcheck.milter.txt
(See http://www.megacity.org/software.html)
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Sendmail/
(Perl interface to Milter)
http://tweegy.demon.nl/projects/spammilt/
http://spam.geht.net/
http://openbottle.sourceforge.net/
(per-user whitelisting)
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http://www.postfix.cs.uu.nl/uce.html
http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/additions.html
http://www.kobitosan.net/postfix/antispam.html
(Japanese)
http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/spam/postfix.shtml
http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/postfix/craig-sanders/index.txt
http://www.postfix.org/addon.html#uce
http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/sw/postfix_patch.html
(per user filtering)
http://x.guimard.free.fr/postfix/uce.html
http://www.xigole.com/bbd/postfix/
http://www.kaspersky.com/buyonline.html?chapter=967506
http://www.advosys.ca/papers/printable/postfix-filtering.html
http://www.mengwong.com/misc/postfix-uce-guide.txt
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http://www.exim.org/howto/rbl.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/iscan/
http://colondot.net/mbm/mailfilter-full.shtml
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/
http://www.smnolde.com:7080/exim/system_filter.exim
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/sauce/
http://www.etla.org/articles/filter/
(Perl)
http://iscan.sourceforge.net/home/index.php
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
(SpamAssassin)
http://elspy.sourceforge.net/
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http://www.qmail.org/top.html#spam
http://web.greens.org/about/software/dnsbl.shtm
http://www.mouken.com/SPAMbaffle/
http://omail.omnis.ch/ospam/
http://spamthrottle.qmail.ca/
http://www.garyarnold.com/projects.php#bayespam
(Bayes)
http://www.chrishardie.com/tech/qmail/qmail-antispam.html
http://deny-spammers.sourceforge.net/
(firewall spammers off)
http://www.pgregg.com/projects/qmail/spamfilter/
(uses procmail)
http://www.qmail.org/spam-filter
http://www.qmail.org/qqrbl
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-smtpd-relay-reject
(reject relay tests)
http://www.gbnet.net/~jrg/qmail/ifspamh/
(spamassassin plugin)
http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/qmail/spambad.cfm
http://chris.shenton.org/sysadm/antispam/dcc-qmail-gnus.html
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http://www.idgnews.net/SpamFilter
http://www.tomlyne.com/kspam/
http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=135
http://www.maysoft.com/web3.nsf/bykey/FPAO5KRQX6
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http://utcc.utoronto.ca/abuse/antispam-stuff/zmailer.html
http://www.zmailer.org/smtp-policy.html
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http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/AntiSpam.html#BlackDNS
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IMail Server for NT
http://www.sortmonster.com/IMFilter/
http://imgate.meiway.com/
http://www.declude.com/JunkMail/
http://www.imagefxonline.net/apps/delog/
(log viewer for JunkMail)
http://www.slsoft.com/spamreview.htm
(log viewer for JunkMail)
http://www.imagefxonline.net/apps/sf/
(plugin for JunkMail)
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Eudora Internet Mail Server for the Mac
http://www.oitc.com/EIMS/VirusFilters.html
http://www.moensted.dk/eims/
http://www.eudora.co.nz/eimsfilters.html
http://www.madoverlord.com/Projects/TOLD.t
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RMail GNU Emacs
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/eli/Downloads/rmail-spam-filter/
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http://www.raeinternet.com/rav/rav_mailservers.html
http://www.spambolt.com/
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Application Service Providers, who pass your email via their own hosted
service servers before delivering it to your own servers.
A similar service is possible on a single mailbox level: Third
Party Client-side Spam Filters
http://spamlinks.mailshell.com/sc_asp_join.html
http://www.brightmail.com/
http://mail-cleaner.com/
http://www.singlefin.net/services/spam_filter.php
http://www.messagelabs.com/page.asp?id=568
http://www.spamlion.com/ (whitelisting)
http://www.jak.com/spam_blocking.htm
http://marvin.sihope.com/
http://www.junkproof.net/
http://www.eleven.de/products/expurgate/asp
http://www.edoxs.com/
http://www.emailclean.com/
http://www.spamstopshere.com/
http://www.frontbridge.com/services/spam_filtering/
http://www.mxlogic.com/services/spam_guard.php
http://www.mailfoundry.com/product_info/mailfoundry_asp/overview/
http://www.versature.com/
http://www.mailcleanser.com/anti-spam.php
http://www.mailwatch.com/
http://www.sonicmail.net/
A separate spam filtering appliance that sits in front of your mail server.
http://www.escom.com/asmtp.html
http://www.8e6technologies.com/products/es2000/
http://www.mirapoint.com/products/message_director.shtml
http://www.vircom.com/Enterprise/Solutions/antispamgate/
http://www.borderware.com/products/mg/
http://www.mxtreme.com/ (see http://www.mxtreme.com/products/mx/mxserver.shtml)
http://www.cloudmark.com/products/authority/
http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/meridius/
http://www.tumbleweed.com/en/products/solutions/appliance_edition.html
http://www.mailfoundry.com/stop_spam/
http://www.sentinet.net/index.php?page=products/sentinet/aim&menu=products
http://www.trimmail.com/
http://www.borderware.com/iforce/
DNS Blackhole Lists (DNSBLs) provide a database which can be queried by
DNS, which is useful primarily for server side applications but are now
being utilised in client side implementations.
Blacklists offer much the same service but are used delivered as single-line
text records for input into a mail program.
Principles and specific examples on how to filter spam on a server level.
Filtering Frequently Asked Questions
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Last updated: 28 Agosto, 2019
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