Yesterday I finally got around to trying out Spamassassin, since all the cool geeks were talking about it a few weeks ago. Of course it was a recursive installation session, I needed procmail (well, it wasn't required, but seemed like the best way to go about it). It works very nicely, although a lot of my mail is still coming through a different server, so is escaping the assassin's deadly attentions. But I intend to consolidate everything on my kief.com server, which is going to seriously clean my inbox.

While I was at it I upgraded Postfix and QPopper, so everything in the mail department is now shipshape! I'm still using a crusty old version of Eudora, but when I saw that version 5's best new feature was to waste CPU cycles to monitor how many exclamation points I type, I figured I could give it a pass. But Eudora 4 still works fine for me.

It's cool to see that Qualcomm decided not to make separate commercial and free versions of qpopper; they're giving refunds to users who bought the beta. I'd slam them for charging money for beta software, but this makes up for it. Qpopper 4 also has SSL support - I'd like to get all of my mail and file copying services over to SSL. I use SSH tunneling for some stuff, but I'd like to find something for my users that doesn't require opening a shell. stunnel looks somewhat useful, but seems to be focused on the server - how can client apps use it transparently?