Liberty Systems & Software

Mail archive is a utility based on perl's Email::MIME libraries which i've been working on for a client which does email attachment filing and deduplication.  It is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later (GPLv3+).  More information will be available here as the project develops.

Last week i had my first encounter with a person who was unable to read an email which used Usenet-style quoting.  For those not familiar with the whole debate, which probably started probably before i first encountered the Internet (way back in 1989), the following references offer some insight:

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Project Honeypot just published a report of their experience in processing 1 billion spam messages.  Highlights for the impatient:

• For the past 5 years, spam "bots have grown at a compound annual growth rate of more than 378%. In other words, the number of bots has nearly quadrupled ever year."
• The top 5 countries which host bots are: China (11.4%), Brazil (9.2%), United States (7.5%), Turkey (6.3%), and Germany (6.0%).
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Richard Bliss recently blogged at Novell and on his personal blog with some great advice: don't click on e-cards from your friends, and think about asking them not to send them at all, since the risks of clicking on e-cards vastly outweigh the benefits....

CSO Online has a great little article about why you shouldn't trust web mail. Check it out and have a good long think about what they say! (Choose the printer-friendly view for a version that's easier on the eyes.)

I recently found IT Security's list of the 25 most common mistakes in email security.

It an interesting read, although not necessarily all of the advice is up-to-date. For example, blacklisting spam sender addresses is useless these days - every spam i've ever seen uses a fake sender address. But the principle still holds: you should mark a spam message as junk rather than deleting it.

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