Having spent an interesting evening chatting with Dave from MailChannels, I’ve now spent well over a week traffic shaping SMTP for some 200k connections and it’s time for a few observations: The installer is very Solaris-a-like. I’m not a fan. I do remember a few far worse, but only a few Upgrades are somewhat clunky, [...]

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I love the idea of abusing the fact that spammers are in a hurry. Traffic Control checks all the geeky check-boxes of a SMTP proxy I should take a closer look at. So the first thing I do once I can netcat to the proxy and check it’s running is fire up a “tcpflow -c [...]

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I looked at the MailChannels “free beer” edition yesterday and decided that 10k/day is not enough for my personal mailhost. $ grep c connect /var/log/mail.log.1 28652 …and yesterday wasn’t a busy day either. IMHO it’d have much better adoption if it had been free for noncommercial use like MT Etc. since it has wide appeal [...]

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