One day.. I am going to sleep.

Been a whirlwind week, seems like I haven’t really got a ton of sleep, just a lot on my mind honestly - mainly work related, but some personal stuff mixed in there somewhere I have been working the last 3 days though in testing this new spam appliance, and I must say - results are a little mixed, but still no false-positives, so I can cut the amount of traffic to servers and have the system actually create a Quarantine like your anti-virus program would.

So needless to say, I am pretty happy, I put this domain up for testing, the results were fair, 36 emails in thus far, out of that only 1 piece of spam made it though - 33 were spam, and the others were tests I sent from 2 networks to see if the new MX records had taken hold - but it’s working! So I am going to let it ride for the weekend, and go from there, but hopefully I can unleash 2 setups:

1. Basic Filtering - All customers can get this, it helps two fold on my end as it increases effectiveness of spam filtering, but also removes load from SpamAssassin from running on the servers! Less load, more speed, less space, higher efficiency.
2. Advanced Filtering - This one will offer a full blown access to a quarantine which customers can login to and manage if they got a message tagged as spam, but will also offer some fail-over on mail, as it will help store mail if the host is down (rare, but it could happen).

So pretty excited, looking at maybe $10 a month for a domain with 50 or less email addresses for the Advanced filtering, and $30 for 50 or more - but the pricing isn’t set in stone, but the next goal is to re-build the appliance a bit, bigger primary drive and swap the current primary to secondary and throw on a bit more ram, so pretty exciting!

But that’s been my week, some minor fun in there - was on the news, had lunch with some friends, dinner with some friends, so I am not completely a work-a-holic, but I could definitely use a nap :)  Well back to it! Another 5 hours then it’s off to build the friend server!