Securing Electronic Mail on the National Research and Academic Network of Italy

Sec-mail is a group of site administrators in the GARR (Gruppo Armonizzazione Reti della Ricerca - Research Networks Harmonisation Group) network dedicated to the security of E-mail services. GARR is the National Research and Academic Network of Italy. The main points covered are in: methodologies to improve the efficiency of spam detection (mainly tuning of SpamAssassin), definition of best practices in electronic mail administration, sender domain authentication, greylisting and spam monitoring.