[Dovecot] help a journalist: What do you wish the CIO understood about fighting spam?

[Esther Schindler]

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
>