It's a job, not an adventure

[smileswhf]

The spam/virus filtering software we use on our mailservers was purchased by the evil MS which promptly end-of-lifed support for all non-windows platforms. Bastards! I have 6 months to find and implement a solution that never returns a false-positive and won't make me go crazy with trying to manage it. I have users that forward to me a copy of every spam s/he receives. Oh, what I would give to make that stop. It doesn't help that I'm a hopeless romantic. Every time I think I've found a package that works, my hopes go soaring up only to be dashed by the realities of insecure code that works fine for a single person but was never intended for a domain. Today, I'm demo'ing a new package. There is hope to it. It's only using heuristics now, but the next release will include bayesian filtering. A lot of their bundle is opensource software that they've written a php interface to and streamlined the install. Given that some of this stuff is very hard to install, I consider that value added. But I haven't lost all my senses: I'm making a tape backup of my server before I type ./install.sh.