* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass discusses ways to ease troubles with FTP transfers * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter offers a solution for blocking spam
* Easing the FTP process
By Steve Blass
Q: We provide an FTP site for clients to upload files to for us to work on. New customers often have trouble with FTP transfers. We would like to add the ability for new customers to upload files using HTTP through their Web browsers and have these files placed as if they had been uploaded by FTP. We run our FTP server in-house, and our Web server is hosted off-site. What options do we have? Will we need to install Web server software on our FTP server to make this work?
A: There are a number of Web browser-based FTP solutions that route the FTP transfer through HTTP and provide the end user the ability to transfer files using a file-upload form on a Web page. Most of the open source solutions are written in PHP and are designed to run in an Apache Web server environment.
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* Blocking spam on a Linux system
By Ron Nutter
Q: We have a Solaris Sparc machine configured with sendmail. Currently a lot of spam is coming to our server. Can you please suggest me how to control spam.
A: There are several ways to do it, but I’d suggest starting with a spam-control solution on a separate server. This takes the processing load off of your mail server in dealing with the spam and gives you a fallback option if something happens to where you can reroute email to the Solaris box.
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