Today I'm taking Kenmore to my customer for configuration and testing. and it's time I finally showed a picture. It's an aluminum cube 8"x8"x12", and it's remarkably light.

The modders in the group will scream about how ugly the CD-ROM & floppy drives look, and I am hoping some will have suggestions on how to make them look better. I'm thinking about simply using a USB-based floppy and CD-ROM drive, which I could use on demand with any system that needed it - this machine has a USB-boot-enabled BIOS, so this would also help keep the unit cooler by removing two devices from the case.

I've been using it on my own network for a while, and SpamAssassin is just fantastic. At my customer we'll migrate to Kenmore for a while to test it, then move the software to his outside mail server. That server is now running sendmail, and we have to rip out everything before installing Postfix and the related tools. Once done, I take Kenmore back home and move onto the next customer.

I am also very pleased with the spamc/spamd combination - it's much faster than launching a fresh SpamAssassin process for each message. The client communicates with the server via TCP, and I'm thinking that if they're both running on the same machine, using UNIX domain sockets may well be even faster.