I am thinking of a session by session post-a-rama from Admin2005 (part 1)
Tags :Conferences
SMTP Configuration Lab
Overview
I always enjoy this session after starting
it up last year. It repeats at least once each day (last year it
ran twice due to volume on one day). It is a reserved slot sessions
since each person is offered a laptop. Extras are offered "observer"
only seats and can take a laptop if someone does not show. Anyone
that tries to get in without a reservation waits a few to see who does
and doesn't show. Luckily I do not think anyone got turned away from
getting in at some time during the week. Each session had every seat
filled.
My Opinions
In this session I rarely look at the slides,
and instead, take the attendees through step-by step testing and overview
of functionality. I make it a total free-for-all in questions and
answers and force some audience participation. I found that the majority
are now utilizing some outside device or service for spam and virus filtering
as a front end. About one-third are using Domino as the front line.
This lets the majority secure Domino even further by restricting
who can connect directly.
Not using Domino as the front end comes
as no surprise, even with Blacklisting and relay enforcements. The
people are having issues with spam, that goes far above the call of Blacklists.
I introduced Whitelists from Domino 7 in each session and combining
that with the front end services and devices, they can totally lock down
Domino as long as the filters catch it.
I am thinking that Domino will be adding
some advanced spam abilities soon to keep up with demand. Maybe relying
on some filter technology like Ted Stanton posted
here.
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On Monday, May 23rd, 2005 by Chris Miller
