Hi, Juha!
I'm posting a similar message on forums for those apps, too. But my
main intent is to get in touch with people who lie awake at night
dealing with e-mail issues. Yes, it's off topic, but nobody has a
"gosh I wish I could talk about general e-mail admin issues" list --
at least, I haven't found one yet.
As far as your assumption that CIOs are always aware of the
difficulty... you may not have met as many of them as I have. <grin>
While most do know that it's a big hairy deal, they may not realize
just how much of an admin's time is spent dealing with the problem,
or they may not be aware just how many end-users are naive enough to
sign up for web sites that promise "you might win gizmo" and then
proceed to send out a bunch of junk mail.
Esther
On Jan 9, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Well, for starters, Dovecot is an IMAP server and doesn't really get involved in the spam side of things at all.
You'd be better off directing your question to mailing lists such as the Exim, Postfix, Sendmail or even Courier one, which deal with MTA issues. However, you may find that your query will be treated as off-topic and spam :)
To answer your question, I'd be surprised if any CIO worth his/her salt wasn't aware of how difficult the spam situation is at the moment. It affects anyone with email directly. My only comment here would be that there is no magic technical bullet to deal with spam, although large-sample filtering seems to work OK.
-- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha