UPDATE: [server administrivia/geek] Things Done to E-Mail, Sherlock Holmes

We're getting fairly well slammed by the latest spamming worm to make the rounds -- a disk filled up with the records of these asshats' spam, which is Not Okay in my world, dammit.

As a result, snugharbor.com and all four dozen (sheesh) domains hosted through, near, around, etc it have been given SPF entries in their DNS records. Our mail server now checks for proper SPF records and implements greylisting on unproven senders.

Update: These checks, and several others, weren't actually being checked because I goofed the configuration file. If you say "permit this mail," the program rightly does not then go on to check the seventeen other rejects and checks you have in place. So, now we're actually checking against lists of known open relays as well as actually implementing the SPF and greylists I already said we had. Go, me.

Impact on users is projected to be minimal, save a slight delay in receipt of mail while the greylist does its thing. If it's otherwise, you know where to go. 8-)

In other news, Greyhaven has picked up the "Sherlock Holmes" bug -- specifically the TV series from the UK filmed in the 80's. I'd caught a few of these with mendou when she was the Designated Stray Person, and they're still good. I wouldn't dream of downloading copies for my amusement, nor anything else I might care about, either. BitTorrent is a fascinating technology, by the way, and for any of my own (purely legal, I assure you) downloads, I recomment Azureus, which is Java and runs on both Mac and PC.

-- Lorrie

[administrivia/geek] Momentary Power Outage

lorien, the server you're all too familiar with, had a momentary power outage at 1:10 PM today. No data or mail was lost, and service was immediately restored, including webmail.

-- Lorrie