Playing catchup after a brief stint away; spam, communigate and PIXen
Phew! I've spent the entire week playing catch-up.
For the first time since August 2003, I took a short vacation with my family. Just a short trip to Connecticut to see Mystic Seaport, with a short trip up to Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI,
Digression: it really is a cool synagogue; it isn’t terribly large—our synagogue here in Brooklyn is about the same size (maybe a little larger) but it wasn't built in the 1700’s, and doesn’t have its balcony finished yet. Plus, they have a 500+ year old Torah scroll given to them as a gift from the Jewish community of Amsterdam that is displayed quite nicely in a glass case....and a trip back on a ferry from New London, CT to Orient Point, NY.
On Sunday night, I got a frantic call from a client who just converted over to using CommuniGate Pro for their mail server. It appears that the stock spam filters that they provide just don't cut the mustard. Luckily, one of my cohorts found a spamassassin conduit for CGP that appears to have stemmed the onslaught of unsolicited mail. Of course, once that was working, it uncovered yet another problem, having to do with the fact that some email from one machine wasn't making it from a qmail install on one branch of a firewall arm to another, exacerbated by the fact that I have not yet set up separate bind views , and that there is NATing going on to allow external hosts to reach the CGP machine. (The solution to that is to use qmail’s smtproutes function to point to an internal address for the CGP machine.)
Now I have to find the time to begin the architecture work for my most recent project, LTR.com, a new-and-improved dating website being started up by my acquaintance David Siegel, which I’ve put off all week...
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