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Testing new phone, got a new T-Mobile Wing and I love it. Thats my cat there... one of the two that is.

PC World - Linux Communications Suite Enters Beta

I can speak from experience here. We tried an alternative to Exchange. We searched and searched, we tried several and finally we found the one we thought would be it. We deployed it to several clients and all hell broke loose. First every couple of days there was an update. This required us to go on site and install and addon to outlook. Then the server would not work or would randomly disconnect. We purchased support from this company only to get the run around, another patch, or no answer at all. At one time Adobe wouldn't work inside of outlook for a client that had the "addon" installed. No response, for 9 months. Then they got sold...

We are now selling hosted exchange, and I can say it works exactly how I would have expected. More important there is support and the clients are familiar with it.

Vista, and Mac support still not available in the other.

For some reason this just got me. I have two cats "in the human ownership type of world" and while I am not sure if they can read. I think its more that they don't care!

Cats Can’t Read !!!! | Bad-Control

 

So here's my idea. I'm sure others or someone has done it or something close. What I'm thinking is using Spamassassin when something scores over 50 go ahead and take the IP of the sending server and pass it to a database.  Then use this database to update a local DNSBL. This would be a cron job that would pull the database and create the records. I would also put a "expire" time that it would expire the entry. Then use the DNSBL at the front end of the smtp connection and block connections based on this. This can easily be done with qmail and postfix.

Would want to block with a url pointing the user to a way of requesting a removal of the block and information on the block. Also have a web front end so someone could make a block either permanent, whitelist, or remove it.

Why a score of 50+ on spamassassin, thats easy. Currently my 10 systems that are scanning if they score over 25 I am 100% sure it is spam. So just to be truly safe at 50 no doubt about it.

With 10 systems scanning 100's of thousands of messages a day this would take a large amount of load and processing time from the spam scanning servers.

 

I seem to never have time to post. Let me see at work I've been working on Xen cluster, openfiler iscsi setup. I've now got 10 Spam/Virus servers running. I've got one running with postfix and  Maia Mail Guard.

At home we had a large branch fall from a tree. I rented a chain saw from Home Depot and was able to cut it up. Then the whole tree fell a week later.

I've got an idea on how to speed up spam scanning among 10 servers using a internal DNS Black list. I will write up a post on this soon.

Oh yea and my wife has got me walking for the March of Dimes.

There is this radio show I listen to just about every morning on the way to work, it is The Rick and Bubba Show. On Jan 19th Rick Burgess son William Bronner "Cornbread" Burgess age 2 died after falling into the family pool. I have listened to Rick and Bubba for over 8 years, and most days it is just what I need to go into work with a smile. I have been on location, such as when Speedy was buried alive at the food world in Bessemer, Al. I have bought several of their CD's "Best of's" and a book they have wrote "Rick and Bubba's Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We Can Think Of" I feel like I know each and every member of the show and their families.

I can not do this justice so I have provided the links below for you to view. These words from a father are powerfully moving. This was recorded on Tuesday Jan 22 at 2:00 PM, he buried his little boy at 11AM that morning. I will try to post a follow up, I have alot of thoughts on this but it is just hard to put words to it. So for now just watch.

A Fathers heart Part 1A Fathers heart Part 2
A Fathers heart Part 3

So this client runs an old server. This is not just any server, it is their main server. It has a MS SQL 6.5 database on it. We have been years telling them to upgrade and they refused. Finally they give us the go ahead and we are scheduled to do it on Friday. Well Wednesday two days before the upgrade they call and say the server is making a bad noise. I believe it is the hard drive.