Mike’s Blog

With things changing all over the marketplace, virtualization has, again, come to the forefront as the savior of the data center.

And wouldn’t you know, I’d like to save my data center, at least some power and cooling needs.

I have started to review how we use our servers and where we could do combining to save power, cooling, and rack space.  During this installment, I’ll be discussing the usage, and combining, of 3 parts of our network:

• POP/IMAP servers
• Apache based web servers
• SMTP (inbound, delivery, outbound) servers

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I had originally written this for my personal blog and reposting here with some updates.

Wow, there are a lot of bad documentation links out there on the interTRON.

For the $ayjob, I have been battling spam for quite some time and continue to look for new ways to put a stop to this abuse. The hard part? One persons spam is another persons legit email, it is so completely difficult to do something that makes everyone happy.

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