IMAP – getting Dovecot running If you’re reading this, you use email. You probably have more than one email address. I do. I have many. I run 13 domains, plus some more for friends off my two mail servers. If you’re like me, you use POP to download your mail to your computer and read […]
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Virus scanning This article outlines how to setup virus scanning using AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner), ClamAV, and Postfix. The actions describe below are particular to a FreeBSD system and are applicable to other operating systems by altering the path to the configuration files, and adjusting for other OS-specific issues. What? Virus scanning on non-windows?
Fighting spam with pf This article was originally published at ONLamp as Greylisting with PF. This article will show you how I am using PF (the the Packet Filter from the OpenBSD project) and spamd (also from OpenBSD) to implement greylisting and greatly reduce incoming spam. This solution is completely MTA agnostic. You do not
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Is your ISP blocking port 25? Here’s a Postfix solution. My ISP started blocking incoming port 25. It’s already blocking outgoing port 25 and I’m handling that. Now it’s time to start accepting incoming mail on the submission port, 587. They aren’t blocking my incoming port 25. But we went through this process for another
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Postfix – virtual domains This article concentrates on the installation and configuration of Postfix. The emphasis is on the FreeBSD environment although the basics should apply to most operating systems. Virtual domains are touched upon briefly, but Postfix – virtual domains contains more information about the three different types of virtual domains and is recommended
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Using smtp from remote locations Regular readers will know that I’m in Ottawa for a short trip. That means you know something my parents don’t know yet. They’re still in Portugal on holiday. I’ll be picking them up upon their return. That’s when they’ll find out I’m visiting. Before I left, I set up an
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qpopper with APOP The Post Office Protocol (POP) can be used to obtain your mail from a remote server. Mail can be delivered to a central location and everyone retrieves their mail from that box. This is fine over a trusted network (e.g. your home LAN). But over an untrusted network (e.g. the Internet),
Setting up Spam Bouncer Spam Bouncer is a set of procmail recipes, or instructions, which search the headers and text of your incoming email to see if it meets one or more conditions. The Spam Bouncer home page is http://www.spambouncer.org/ and I’ve just installed it. The rest of this article will show you what I
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procmail – a simple example procmail is a tool for manipulating mail. If you like to sort your incoming mail into various folders/directories, procmail can do that for you. If you want to cut down on the spam, procmail can help with that. Basically, if you can write a rule for it, procmail can
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webmail – Endymion Mailman I was looking for a webmail application. I wanted to use webmail from locations where I can’t ssh back to my box at home. I headed over to The CGI Resource Index and had a look at their collection of perl scripts. Under Web-Based E-Mail I found Endymion Mailman.
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