Since my last posting on my battle against spam, I’ve made quite a bit of progress. I’ll concentrate on my personal experience in this entry, and cover some broader issues in a future post. I needed to take several additional steps to make the setup of my domain’s email server and SpamJadoo work well for me. (As an aside: Apparently "jadoo" is a Persian term for magic that is used widely in Indian and Pakistani English. It was new to me.)

My most pressing initial problem with SpamJadoo was that some of my regular correspondents and family members couldn’t get through the grey-listing process. I was finally able to reproduce the problem from a verizon.net account, and sent the "delayed mail" report off to Shiv in Jaipur. He recognized the problem as a rare case of a legitimate mail server that didn’t retry from a "mailbox temporarily unavailable" response within the timing window defined as normal in SpamJadoo. Fortunately, this is a configurable parameter in SpamJadoo, and Shiv widened the timing window to allow for verizon.net’s behavior. Strategic Developer | Martin Heller | InfoWorld | Spam Fighting, Revisited | October 4, 2007 07:25 AM | By Martin Heller

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