Wow... I can't believe how much progress I've made at work in the past few weeks. Usually, the day-to-day support routine prevents me from working on any special projects, things that need to be done but I can't focus enough time on them to get anywhere.
The first problem was to address the increasing problem of spam on the e-mail server. It finally got to the point where the mail server couldn't handle the load anymore -- the disk was constantly getting filled up. I found some time across a couple of weeks and managed to set up a mail relay that filters the mail using SpamAssassin and MIMEDefang. These two open source products are absolutely awesome! I am managing to reject over 2000 spams and sideline another 500 questionable messages daily! And this is with only 100+ users.
My next project is an intranet site for the organization. I'm in the process of setting up Slashcode on a Fedora Core 3 server to do it blog-style. For those familiar with Slashdot (one of my regular haunts), Slashcode is the software that runs the site. It'll save me a good bit of manual coding everytime someone wants something posted - in fact, they can post it themselves and then I can simply edit.
Hopefully this is a good omen - it's already shaping up to be a busy year, so with luck, these tools will help lighten the load a bit.
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