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Thunderbird 1.5b1
Shortly after Firefox 1.5b1, the new beta of Mozilla Thunderbird is also out. I don’t use an email client at home (I use GMail), but I’ve just updated Thunderbird from 1.0.6 to 1.5b1 at work (Linux)....
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Yahoo! Mail beta
Does GMail have competition? From what I can see, it looks like a “normal” email program… but in the browser. And they say it’s responsive like an email program. I have 2 Yahoo! Mail accounts, though...
View ArticleThunderbird 1.5b2
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5b2 is out (saw it on Ricardo Saramago’s blog). Note: the “what’s new” list in the 1.5b2 page lists what’s new since 1.0.x, not since 1.5b1, contrarily to what it looks like. As...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #0: Introduction
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) “An Anti-Spam gateway” is the Tlog’s third series. In it, I will write about how to use a Unix-like free operating system such as Linux or...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #1: Initial stuff
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Before we begin to actually get our hands dirty , here are a few things to note: As I said in the introduction, this is a recipe, not a...
View ArticleAn Anti-Spam gateway #2: A note about compiling on Linux
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) These days, most Linux distributions, especially the RPM-based ones like Fedora, Red Hat or SUSE, increasingly assume that “nobody compiles...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #3: Postfix
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) So, at last, we’re getting our hands dirty. It’s time to separate the boys from the men, or something. Now, as I was writing this, I had a...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #4: Postfix, part 2
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Continuing the Postfix configuration… Edit the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. Look for, and change according to your configuration, the following...
View ArticleAn Anti-Spam gateway #5: SpamAssassin
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Installing SpamAssassin isn’t too hard, thanks to Perl‘s CPAN. First, type the following: perl -MCPAN -e shell If it’s the first time you do...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #6: Razor
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Vipul’s Razor is a piece of software for accessing a large database of spam messages. By installing it, and configuring SpamAssassin to use...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #7: MySQL
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Time for MySQL. We’ll be using it just for storing the bayes tokens, not for per-user configuration (because, in this case, there is none) or...
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Thunderbird 1.5 RC 1 released
Ricardo got there first this time. Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 is out, and can be downloaded here. Or you can try the auto-update. I’m using it right now, at work (on Linux). Copyright © 2013 The Tlog...
View ArticleThunderbird 1.5 relased
Much like Firefox, the last RC – in this case, 1.5 RC 2 – is the same as the final version. If you already have that one, you have the latest Thunderbird. For everyone else, you can get Thunderbird...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #8: MySQL and SpamAssassin
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Thought I’d forgotten about this one, didn’t you? Ready to make SpamAssassin actually use MySQL for the bayes database? Start by creating the...
View ArticleAn Anti-Spam gateway #9: ClamAV
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Now for the anti-virus. Go to the ClamAV site, download the latest stable version, uncompress it, then compile and install it: ./configure...
View ArticleAn Anti-Spam gateway #10: amavisd-new
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Go to the amavisd-new site and download the latest version (2.3.3 at the time of writing). Uncompress it somewhere, then copy amavisd to...
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An Anti-Spam gateway #11: amavisd-new and Postfix
(NOTE: this is part of the “An Anti-Spam gateway” series) Not much longer, now… Add the following line to /etc/postfix/main.cf: content_filter=smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 and the following lines to...
View ArticleProfiMail and the Gmail "untrusted certificate"
If you read your email on a Series 60 phone, you probably use ProfiMail, a very nice mobile email client. However, when you configure it to access a Gmail account, you will always get the “This site...
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Reading blogs away from the computer
Now that I work at home (and yes, I’ve been incredibly lazy… where are the new posts? ahem… any day now ), I’ve discovered something about myself: I don’t like to read stuff on my computer. Sure, I do...
View ArticleSPF, part 1: what is SPF, and how to fight spam with it
(Note: this is the first of a series of posts related to email servers and spam. This one is more of a theoretical intro; future posts will delve into the gory details.) (Later note: here are parts 2...
View ArticleSPF, part 2: how to configure SPF for a domain
(this is part 2 of a series. You should read part 1 first, and after this post you should read part 3.) Suppose you have a domain and send email from it (in fact, even if you don’t, this is still a...
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What’s this site running?
As an intermission (there’s more to come in the SPF series), here’s what’s changed on my server since, oh, about a year and a half ago: The OS is now Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10), and all the server’s...
View ArticleSPF, part 3: configuring Postfix to check SPF records when receiving mail
(for extra fun, read parts 1 and 2 first.) Now that you know how to configure an SPF record for your domain(s), the natural next step, if you administer an email server, is to start checking SPF...
View ArticlePostfix’s log file when using SPF: what it looks like
In the previous post, I wrote, at the end of the recipe: restart Postfix. Check your logs to see if everything is working properly. But what to look for? Here are a few real life examples, from my own...
View ArticleWhat if everyone used SPF?
To end my SPF series, I’m going to consider the following question: what if everyone used SPF? Would it “end” spam? The answer is, of course, “no, but…”. But, first, let’s understand the question...
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