fell off the wagon, climbing back on

[Scott Silva]

Jeff A. Earickson spake the following on 8/22/2007 1:13 PM:
> Julian et al,
> 
> I replaced my legacy sendmail box with an fancy new all-in-one
> email appliance on July 23.  Anti-spam, anti-virus, integrated
> webmail/POP/IMAP/calendaring, shared mail folders, etc, etc.
> And I bailed off the list, thinking life would be good.
> 
> Forgive me, Jules, for I have sinned.  I've gotten my butt kicked
> by both the spammers and the user community in the past month.
> While my new gear is great for integrated webmail etc (and the
> users like it), its anti-spam setup is clearly inferior to MailScanner.
> I figured that the [unamed] appliance might be worse than MailScanner in
> terms of anti-spam, but I was shocked at how much of a difference there
> is.
> 
> Due to popular demand/angry mobs, I am putting my legacy system
> back in front of the appliance to run sendmail/MailScanner in relay mode
> to get our spam back to where it was.  I had left it
> intact, so this was just a case of updating MailScanner, SA, and clam
> and redoing my sendmail.cf file.
> 
> Woe to those who stray from the path of MailScanner.  You
> will be punished.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
It is a good thing to have unburned bridges to retreat back over!!  ;-P

Say 10 hail Julian's and sin no more...

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