On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote: >> >> Irony of ironies (or perhaps not) it's all the Microsoft-hosted BPOS account >> from our UA central mail service...reason 4,876 I'm so grateful that we run >> our own email servers here at the College. OUR server catch all the spam and >> viruses. > May I ask what platform and software you use?
Procmail for mail transport + Amavis for spam/AV filtering + Dovecot IMAP server for client-facing mail storage, distributed across four servers plus a large whack of space on our 10Tb SAN for actual storage. (yes this is industrial strength, but we have about 1200 users all told) It took our resident expert about two years to get it all down (much of which time was spent getting himself from newbie to expert) but since it's set up it's rocked. My junk mailbox on the pharmacy server has three spam messages that got through this week; and this is in an environment where it's entirely possible to get legitimate emails regarding online pharmacies and viagra :-) We only have occasional false positives and almost invariably they're emails sent from domains that have lots of spammers on them. > > By the way, the hardware gods seem to have relented a bit - maybe because I > fed my better half and some friends 3 variants on sprout and lentil curry > this evening. > > - Pismo boots from the OS9·2·2 partition if I choose this from the open > firmware process. It will mount DVDs and CDs and will play from an audio CD. > > - Pismo also boots from my Tiger installer DVD if I choose this from the open > firmware process. Disk Utility's 'repair disk' facility reports an 'invalid > key length' and then stops. Bad, you're right this is a N&P time. > > So I guess the Tiger partition needs to be nuked and paved. I don't have any > apps on the Tiger partition apart from those installed with OSX, nor do I > keep any data on the Pismo apart from my website documents and that's only > 12GB, so no problem to copy it back from my main mac. However, any thoughts > as to what I might have done to this partition? I'd prefer not to do it again! Nah this happens sometime. Did this have any unexpected power fails or shutdowns recently? Keep an eye on it, sometimes this is an early warning sign of a failing drive. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
