Red Cube Hosting

Archive for July, 2007

We’ve been making even more improvements to the spam filtering for our hosting customers.

We’ve added some of the rules from SARE to enhance the spam scoring carried out by SpamAssassin. Along side some other small changes to the SpamAssassin configuration, we are seeing a significant improvement in the quality of the filtering. More spam is being rejected outright (rather than being simply tagged as suspicious).

We have also started using the Razor and DCC clearing houses. These work by taking checksums of certain portions of email and comparing them to recent known spam. Don’t worry, we don’t send your email or any personally identifiable information to third parties to do this - we simply send a hash or fingerprint of the information.

As part of our recent upgrade to our hosting service, we introduced a control panel which allows customers to setup and manage domains, email accounts, ftp accounts, databases and alike. A few customers have contacted us asking if this means we will no longer manage their accounts for them. Please don’t worry - use of the control panel is optional, you can still ask us to do these things for you.