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/ -- Ron McKeating Senior IT Services Specialist Internet Services and Software Solutions Loughborough University 01509 222329
