2015

Testing email delivery

The solution Here is the solution. You can stop reading now: ./check_email_delivery –smtp-server smtp.example.org –mailto dan@example.org \ –mailfrom dan@example.org \ –body ‘test, please ignore’ –imapssl \ –imap-server imap.example.org –username deltest –password secret That will test both delivery and receipt. There. Be gone. You don’t need the rest of this article. Thanks. Background As pointed out, this isn’t testing for an email loop. This is testing delivery. I took the term from the phrase […]

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temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: signal 0x19

This is not the first time this has happened. It last happened about a month ago. Tonight it happened for a different reason. This time it wasn’t the size of the mbox (I’m not using mbox on this server). This time it’s the size of the log. $ ls -lha ~/.mailfilter.log* -rw-r–r– 1 dan dan 52k Jan 11 00:18 /usr/home/dan/.mailfilter.log -rw——- 1 dan dan 48M Jan 10 21:03 /usr/home/dan/.mailfilter.log.1 Once I mv‘d the

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Bacula on FreeBSD with ZFS

Full disclosure: I’m biased. I like the combination of PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, ZFS, and Bacula. In fact, I like it so much, I wrote the PostgreSQL backend for Bacula. Since then, I have been using Bacula for over 10 years. I have backed up to HDD, DDS, DLT, and SDLT. Bacula has proven to be reliable and it just works. Clients are available for a wide range of operating systems and Bacula doesn’t care

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Connecting a M/M VGA cable to a KVM switch using a gender changer

This post is about removing the threaded ports from a gender-bender VGA adapter so you can use it with a connector which already has ports. The photos will make it clear what I’m referring to. I recently obtained a KVM switch. This will make sysadmin life at the console easier. Previously, if I needed to be on the console for a given machine, I had to connect the keyboard and monitor cables to

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You don’t have permission to access /pipermail/bsdcan-announce/ on this server – mailman

I ran into this problem today and spent about 2 hours trying to figure out what went wrong. I composed an email to the Mailman mailing list and never sent it, because I solved the problem. Here is that email: Subject: Cannot view archives via website Hello, I think this is solved, but I’m posting anyway. I *think* the issue is one of permission: Apache, running as user www, cannot access the private

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