Hi everybody, this is cross-posted to a few lists so you may get it more
than once, if so my appologies.
In the last 2 years since taking over a very much under-resourced mail
service that desperately needed upgrading, we at Loughborough University
have gone through massive changes to bring our email service into the
21st century. I would suspect that we are not alone in this.
I was wondering if a few like minded folk who have been through the mill
also, would like to get together here at our conference centre for a 1
or 2 day seminar in the new year. This is not a profit making exercise
and will be entirely based on the use of open source software.
I would like to look at the overall use of email, including the
following applications which we depend on.
Exim MTA software
http://www.exim.org/
SpamAssassin
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
SURBL
http://www.surbl.org/
Perdition IMAP proxy.
http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/
Also possibly Courier IMAP and Clam AV. Maybe you have other
suggestions. The idea being to get to meet and share ideas with other
people who have to tie all these things together and manage a large and
sophisticated email service. I do not envisage restricting this just to
the academic sector as the same problems face the commercial sector too.
Maybe also finding time to look at security issues both at server level
and in terms of authenticated SMTP and the problems of ISP snaffling
port 25 traffic.
I would your thoughts on if think this would be worthwhile and some idea
of how many would like to attend.
Ron
PS our conference centre is at
http://www.welcometoimago.com/index.php?id=10burleighcourt/
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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
01509 222329
