Smile Server Status
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Smile discovered an intermittent issue with the POP that caused some clients to time out when trying to connect to receive mail. The problem has been corrected, and mail is working normally again. Thanks to the customers that submitted trouble tickets at http://billing.smileglobal.com/
Spam Filtering Statistics
Just a few numbers from some preliminary testing we’re doing on the spam filtering, with the combination of selective rDNS lookups and message scoring. The selective reverse DNS filtering is blocking around 100 messages a minute, or almost 2 messages a second. These are send by infected computers around the world. In addition, the message …
Spam Filtering Upgrades
We have seen spam volume increase by a large amount over the past month. Yesterday we implemented some additional filtering. Some of these filters appear to be a bit over-aggressive. We have scaled back on the filters, and mail should be back to fairly normal as of Saturday morning. If you have bounce messages, or …