When my company moved to (their own) new data center this year, once of the things they did was go to out of band management for every single piece of gear in there. In the racks, they have dual-power (A and B feed, as GNAX described) intelligent PDUs that are both on separate out of band networks solely for management. Of course, nothing guarantees something bizarre couldn’t occur there, but then again, our data center is purely for in-house use, and we’ve always got something like a half-dozen (or maybe more) in the shop “just in case”.

I am going to take the GNAX explanation and run it by a couple of people here with the question “could this possibly happen to us”? I’m not responsible for the data center itself, but I am responsible for several key infrastructure components that enable our workforce to do their jobs. As a big “customer” of our data center, I want to know if I’ve got anything to worry about.

Thanks for posting that Matt.

Body matching and capturing was a bit over the head for everyone, so I skipped on discussing those topics. In the context of what was discussed — and its status as a legitimate problem — matching the body is incorrect :). Anyway, it should be “if (/^FF Today:/Db)” because we are concerned about case and the crucial colon, but now I’m being pedantic.

For problem 1, you said DELIVERED in August 2007. The Date just shows when the sending machine (or presumably first receiving SMTP server) thinks it was sent. I’d argue that the correct answer would actually have to look at the Received-By: line for the date where it shows that it was delivered to you (which of course isn’t always present, though it is here.)

For #2, you said “If the message starts with “FF Today:”, “, so I think it would actually be:

# Pattern match on body
if (/^FF Today/b)
{
to “Mail/.FF Today/”
}

I did get pretty much the same thing for 3, and I got a bit into #4 and gave up, as I was getting a headache.

Thanks for the interesting exercise!

I’m using a far more manual method of moving the Spam around to be learned, but it has essentially the same effect. The suggestion that I have would be to at least learn the spam more often. It seems that these things come in waves (e.g., all those football spams), and a week later, it seems like a lot of times they’ve subsided. As a result, I run a nightly spam cleanup, which runs sa-learn and deletes the folder. My thought is that by doing this, I’ll teach SA to ignore those new ones faster.

Now for my question: I started to experiment with “Eudora 8.0″ (which is the one built using Thunderbird as a base, with the magic “Penelope” plug it to make it more Eudora-like.) I still don’t have a dovecot-keywords file. Is that normally created by Thunderbird?