ORDB begins returning false positives

Haven’t gotten any email today? At 9am PST, the long retired ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives as a way to get sleeping mail admins to remove the ORDB query from their spam filters. The result: all mail is blocked on servers still configured to use the ORDB service.

Thunderbird POP timeout problem

I came across a problem today with Mozilla Thunderbird (though not necessarily isolated to this client) and the POP mail server. It came about because a user has been out of the office and not pop’ing his mail to the desktop. The server had accumulated 100MB of email over this time.
The problem
Thunderbird has a default [...]

The Bad in Email

The guys over at Central Desktop Blog have a well-thought out piece where they discuss a number of short-comings surrounding email and its day to day use. I think most of us have some level of familiarity with a majority of their points, including:

Email is NOT Secure
Group Email is Really Complicated
Email is Not a Document [...]