TESTING ANTI-SPAM OPEN SOURCE TOOLS
André Gonzatti, Marco Antônio Sandini Trentin, Adriano Canabarro Teixeira · 2012
The large number of unwanted messages received by users in their mailboxes, makes them look for ways t o combat or alleviate the problems caused by the rece ipt of spam. The present work aims to study the tec hniques and tools that can be used to combat spam, showing the operation of electronic mail and the SMTP proto col, the most common forms of spam currently existing statistics of the occurrence, as well as the forms us ed for sending this message type. Will also be shown the o peration and a comparison of three tests with open source tools: Bogofilter, SpamAssassin and SpamPal designed to combat spam.