I received an email last week on this server - mind you I am the admin on it - with a flippin virus inside a zip file. I was insulted, and my evening plans were unfortunately set.

As of late there have been more stories of spyware on Windows PC's, people losing thousands of dollars and I often go off about (in)security and how its good to be paranoid, but certainly users are sometimes to blame. I don't use torrent clients or P2P anything - don't trust it, plus I prefer to respect copyright law - and it restricts the flow of media distraction pretty well. youtube, somafm fill in the gaps.

So rant aside, here I am contributing to the problem - I did not 6 months or 2 years ago, but something broke - and that took it out.. In this case, the antivirus scanner was broke, so emails - infected and all - were being accepted. So after some hours of serious wrangling, I got the email server "roped in" and made some changes while at it - and I am happy with the results.

So, the summary is..

• All email that is being received OR sent by this server gets virus scanned.
• If you use this server for outgoing email, it will be scanned for virus's as its being accepted, and rejected if a virus is found - you'll most likely have a pop-up saying "virus has been found...."
• Incoming email - things that are spammy - I set it pretty high - go to a folder called "spam" - note the lowercase "s". In Thunderbird you'll have to subscribe to this - right click on inbox and will see "subscribe". Click and a new box will open, check the "spam" entry and save.
• Added in some more checks to lower spam (where is the eliminate option??). Its easy to filter out 98% - but those last 1-2% the work to correctly filter goes up exponentially.
• If you encounter unhappiness with this setup, please let me know - gregg [aht) mochabomb {daht} _com=