Over the past few years, we’ve had mediocre success with Spam Assassin keeping junk mail at reasonable levels, but mostly just by not posting our email addresses to web pages we’ve kept it to nearly zero. However, this last few months, it’s gotten completely out of hand on our primary business domain and I’m tired of it. So, I started looking around and found a free spam filter that we can use to filter at the mail server level. I have no idea how well it works yet, but I have high hopes. It uses the same kind of smarts that Gmail uses, only I get to continue using my own servers and do what I want without entangling myself with Google’s vast network of electronic spy robot assassins. They leap from the dark shadows at passersby, and you never see them coming, you know.

Very soon, we’re also going to start using an outgoing mail relay that improves delivery reliability. Running servers isn’t much fun when it’s as complicated as email has become. Believe it or not, the hidden cost of spammers is not just wasted time and bandwidth to the end-user, but also on the training and time IT professionals require to keep it working at all. As we are just about ready to start sending emails to Trivia Adventure players, we need a reliable partner to handle the delivery for us, potentially in the millions per month (let us pray!).

…Oh, the little weird jobs I have now that we’re doing social games.

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