21-Aug-2014

Renewed licenses
Being a VMS hobbyist user on this site, the licences need to be renewed each year – and the expiration date is close. Ok, I have a few weeks left but to be sure to have them installed in time, I requested a new set of licences for VMS and Process Software’s mail-frontend – my spam-filter. The VMS licenses of course requested via OpenVMS.org (they offer an entry to request them) after I renewed my Connect membership – though I could propably have saved the $25 if only the Dutch HP User group had the membership number displayed on their meber site….) and I got the procedure for renewal the next day by email, thnaks to John Egolf. Installed them, so I can go on until 15-Sep-2015.
Next, pushed the VAX_VMS spec to Process as proof that I DO have a hobbyist license and requested a new PMAS license – which again, I got by email witgin 24 hours, thanks to Hunter Goatley. Installed that license (remotely :)) and I’m free from most spam until 4-Sep-2015.. There is a slight gap, but that will be addressed next year, in August.

03-Aug-2014

No surprises
in the maintenance job.
PMAS statistics for July
Total messages    :   2896 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
Relay attempts    :   1065 =  36.7 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1831 =  63.2 o/o (Files: 31)
  Handled by explicit rule         Rejected :   1199 =  65.4 o/o (processed),  41.4 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    263 =  14.3 o/o (processed),   9.0 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    108 =   5.8 o/o (processed),   3.7 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    210 =  11.4 o/o (processed),   7.2 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     51 =   2.7 o/o processed),   1.7 o/o (all)

Just that the number of relay attempts has been quite large: Almost every day there have beenm numerous attempts. This is something to be looked at; it concerns a number of different addresses sp I suspect a number of infected systems.
The WASD configuration requires a slight change for Mondesi to work. Minor, but important.