Jim Dalrymple.com

Sometimes I feel pretty stupid—this week was one of those times. I’ve been running my server without Spam Assassin because I really didn’t need it. However, lately it’s become necessary, so I decided to set it up.

Right away it started picking up spam email and marking it correctly. Then it started marking emails spam that really wasn’t spam. So I setup the Junkmail and Notjunkmail email boxes so I could train the Bayesian filters.

But it didn’t really work. Then I realized that there was no cron job setup, so the damn thing wasn’t learning anything. I downloaded Spamtrainer ran the fixes and the rules and everything is running fine now.

I sat there this afternoon looking at my daughters Dell wondering why the hell it had to be so difficult to join a wireless network. A Mac is so easy—turn it on and it finds the network for you. That’s it, nothing else.

I like to keep the server as up to date as possible, usually waiting a few days to update after Apple releases a fix or Security update. Since I was on vacation for a week and traveling the three weeks before that, I missed the last Security update for Mac OS X Server. I can tell you now, I wish I was still missing it!