[Jay]

Ski was happy a big spammer got busted and I think all of us got a respite.

I also said the 'power vacuum' (or something like that) would be filled by new bad guys. In my case, it has.
Very bad.

You?

I just installed Postini on my mail server.

Will keep you posted.

[Skibum]

was bad for a day last week.. since then about the same level as after the spammer got caught.

[Jay]

It's been absolutely fierce here.

There's the possibility that I left some bait out.

It suddenly dropped to about zero after I enabled Postini. I've been getting about 200 per day. Most claim they were from my addy which is an easy flag for a human.

I use Windows Mail. Apparently, its spam filter just looks at the spoofed 'from' because a check of message properties clearly shows their true origin.

I'll check the trap tomorrow morning.

[Jay]

Postini is amazing!

[Skibum]

So where do the Postini'd emails go?

[Skibum]

If you used Outlook you wouldn't have the issue in the first place.

[Jay]

So where do the Postini'd emails go?

They go to a junk folder on the server. At a frequency I decide, Postini sends me an email with the list.
I can then choose to have ones sent to my inbox, ignore them for now or delete them from that email interface.

I also have a control panel on the server to revisit those messages for deletion or whatever.

It's very convenient.