Part 1: Even maildirs need their personal space I did a migration of my mail server over the last weekend and I ran into a strange error when I brought things back online. My system was receiving mail fine, but it was being deferred in the...
Background Prompted by a request from staff at a client's head office, a couple of days ago i posed this question to a couple of the mailing lists i'm on: what is your size limit on individual email messages? I was blown away by the speed,...
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...
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...
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...