On May 10, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: > > The idea that all mail should be IMAPped HTML and opened with all of the > links automatically read is just silly. The advertisers and spammers are the > only folks who gain anything from it.
IMAP vs POP has nothing to do with the HTML stuff and spammers. Spam is easily contained...my junk mail folder (which I leave to fill until I empty it) currently contains 19 spams that escaped our spam filtering system on our mail server, going back to the middle of April. I've had maybe one or two a week that gets past both the server-side and client-side filtering. Last time I looked we were sending nearly 90% of all mail messages straight to the bitbucket, and this in an environment where emails mentioning online pharmacies and viagra could well be legitimate messages. Once this system was set up it was pretty much automated, (for anyone who wants to know, we're using using amavis in conjunction with clamav and spam assassin + RBL filters + some other stuff to do the trick, then passing the filtered mail from our SMTP servers to our IMAP mailstore running dovecot. I can provide exhaustive detail if anyone wants) Maybe once a month someone complains that they didn't receive something and we'll find it in rejected emails, and either whitelist that sender or adjust the rules to fix it. This is done for approximately a thousand users for about 0.1 FTE...ie: the person who runs our email system spends about 1/10th of his time doing that. -- 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
