Recently I’ve starting getting more spam to my home email server, so I decided to find a solution for that. What I came up with was a project on sourceforge called ASSP. Although I ran into some problems I thought were cause by this program, but were in fact casued by a new anti-spam policy just implemented by my ISP. The process is a little long so I will continue my explanation below. Keep in mind this is written for Windows (this guide is written assuming that a current mail server is up and running).

First and foremost you want to make sure you backup your server. After that you’ll want to gather the software that you’ll need. You’ll need an installation of perl, I found mine at ActiveState. Installation of that is simple wizard based.

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