Yesterday I backported a recent postfix version to woody, and installed it together with postgrey. Yay! I finally have greylisting on my mailserver.

This cut down the amount of spam by a lot. The server is now processing only 20% of its former incoming mail volume. Spam rejects dropped to about 2% of the former quantities, marked spam down to 50%.

Almost all spam I still see in my "likely spam" and Inbox folders is forwarded by other accounts such as my university account, an old freemail account (both of which do have a pretty good spam protection by now) and via my Debian address. Actually most spam I get now is addressed to my @d.o email.

After having two days of a really bad neck, I'm recovering. Fortunately, I have a very good doctor as neighbour, it took just 5 minutes.

My destructive powers are coming along nicely. Apparently two months ago, the ISDN card of my mother died - today, the harddisk (which is about 8 months old) died, too. The computer is plugged in behind a shock protection, and there was no thunderstorm last night.