Maintenance
No real issues; the number of operator logs is a bit larger that you could expect for a month: you could expect 31 (one for each day) but due to instalations and subsequent reboots, the amount was 37. No big deal.
No significant spam attempts, and pretty neat figures on spam:
PMAS statistics for May
Total messages : 4341 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 0 = .0 o/o (Files: 0)
Relay attempts : 715 = 16.4 o/o (Files: 29)
Accepted by PMAS : 3626 = 83.5 o/o (Files: 31)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 2765 = 76.2 o/o (processed), 63.6 o/o (all)
Accepted : 239 = 6.5 o/o (processed), 5.5 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 120 = 3.3 o/o (processed), 2.7 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 254 = 7.0 o/o (processed), 5.8 o/o (all)
Delivered : 248 = 6.8 o/o (processed), 5.7 o/o (all)
On 01-Jun-2014, I installed the TCPIP-update, because the new version of POP ruins Outlook output. At least, it doesn’t show as it should. It seems the server breaks on extension header records (the ones that are added by PMAS, for instance: beginning with “X-PMAS”) and fails to recognize MIME headers; mail that is sent locally – like the T4 output and batch status messages – are Ok. Just incoming mail fails.
Sent some info on the issue to the OpenVMS Netwokring forum, got a reply mentioning a freeware POPserver but that requires TCPWare, which I don’t use and therefore it cannot be considered.
The final solution – for now – is switching from POP3 to IMAP, which was already enabled. The only problem here is the requirement of a separate mailbox file. Only to find out how I can bypass that, or change it’s location…
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center