December 27, 2012

spamlogd not running; spamd-setup won’t run

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Greylisting is an interesting approach to spam. I first started using it in the form of OpenBSD’s pf and spamd tools back in 2007. That said, I now let Google handle my incoming email. Today I was trying to get spamd-setup to run: spamd-setup: Can’t connect to spamd on port 8026: Connection refused I couldn’t figure that one out. But eventually I stumbled upon it… The problem was spamlogd. It wasn’t running. So […]

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Forwarding mail in mbox to elsewhere

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Yesterday I was setting up a new server for a client / friend. During the setup, we had a brief period wherein mail was delivered to mbox instead of to Maildir. That is, we had mail sitting in /var/mail/USER instead of ~USER/Maildir, for a number of values of USER. At first, I tried using formail and procmail to send it to the local user. I did this using a method I found using

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