Recent System Updates Improve SPAM Filtering, Pine, WebMail, and More…

Computing Center staff completed several system upgrades in recent months, including upgrading Daisy from a Compaq 8400 to a new GS80, improving SPAM filtering on Oregon, updating Pine on VMS, and installing the latest version of WebMail. In addition, two new NT servers dedicated to running administrative programs for Facilities Services were installed in the machine room.

Daisy.The Daisy upgrade provides considerable additional CPU capacity and memory and should improve the performance of administrative applications. The new machine is roughly four times faster than the old Daisy.

SPAM filtering. The PMDF upgrade package on Oregon (which includes Pine 4.21) provides increased capability to filter out several varieties of SPAM and includes support for the Relay Spam Stopper (see http://mail-abuse.org/).

Pine 4.21. The updated Pine includes new screen navigation commands and improvements to the Addressbook and Preferences configuration. In addition, 4.21 offers both text and HTML support, help screens with hyperlinks to other help screens, SSL security (TLS), and many new setup configuration features.

WebMail 3.61.08. The latest version of WebMail contains some encryption fixes for SSL and TLS, which should ensure trouble-free secure logins to Darkwing and Gladstone.