Surrender, I give up !!

Oh man, these lizard feces sucking scum that are also known as spammers are totally destroying me. I get on average 150 spam e-mails every single day on my 3 main e-mail accounts, yup, that is over 450 spam e-mails every single day. My mail client is getting pretty good at identifying them but not enough and he has some failures.

I have given up. I don't think I have ever given up on anything in my life. When I started Studlar Software I had a laptop at home, installed Fedora Linux and built my own e-mail server, web server, ldap and some other things. All with my own hard work. I did install spam blockers on the server and grey listing. Grey listing works really well ( I might explain it a little later ). I got ca 2-3 spams in my mail client in a week, and I did not loose ANY real mail.

But once I started getting real traffic on my sites, I wasn't really happy with the uptime I had on my ADSL so I had to shell out some money and buy hosting. I decided on dreamhost.com. I really like them, and you can't argue with the price.

But when you are hosted, you don't have root access without paying quite a lot more, so at first and for the next 2 years I put up with spam. But no more. Now all my mail accounts go to gmail, and the funny thing is, I never liked gmail until 2 days ago when I finally "got it". Guess this is like so many other things, you need to use it to get it.

Well, gmail is doing excellent work, totally excellent.

But if you want to use dreamhost, use the coupon code trausti and it will give you a very nice discount.