Recently I've been having an issue with my email server. For whatever reason I now have two processes running at about 49% each. The processes both belong to amavis and are running clamscan.

Many of you know that there is tons and tons of spam floating around the internet. From kings or princes in some African country that has tons of money and wants to share it with you, or whether it's cheap drugs/viagra/cialis, your email box becomes full of it overnight. This is why email providers (such as Hotmail/Live, Yahoo, Gmail/Google, etc) invented the "Junk Mail" box and attempt to filter junk email to that box so you don't see it in your inbox. That's fine and dandy, but with the changing technologies on the web, spammers are getting smarter.

Anyone can set up a server in their own home if they wanted to, I mean it's not that hard, there are a million "how-to" guides on the internet. You can easily set up a LAMP setup within minutes. But what about in a large corporation with a huge server farm which have an "unlimited" budget?

In my previous post, I showed that Shaw is a huge douche-bag company that blocks port 25 so people on the residential internet plan can not set up their own email servers (yeah yeah, I know residential internet is not meant for servers, but it's just for practice).

Turns out Shaw Cable did something smart recently, they blocked port 25 for all residential users to help cut down on spam and trojans/viruses. I have two things to say to that.