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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I use Google calendar for a number of things. I also have my contacts in Google. I also use Google Mail, but also run a person mail server. So… I want to see my Google contacts on my phone and I want to see my Google calendars there too. There are a number of ways to do this. This documents how I did this on my iPhone 5. I use, and encourage you
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Here are a few SPF tools which I recently used. http://www.openspf.org/Tools – an email based tester http://tools.bevhost.com/spf/ – web based tester http://www.mailradar.com/spf/ – wizard to create SPF records http://www.mtgsy.net/dns/spfwizard.php – a wizard for setting up SPF I needed to alter some of my SPF records because they were out of date, and therefore, no longer accurate.
Recently, I saw this log entry: Jul 19 08:00:05 nyi Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group “mailman other mail daemon”, but the system’s mail server executed the mail script as group “mailman”. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group “mailman other mail daemon”, or re-run configure, providing the command line option `–with-mail-gid=mailman’. Searching around, it seems this is a
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It was my riding buddy, John Boatman who told me he synced his iPhone and Google contacts. Just before I broke my arm in June, my iPhone died (actually, I lost the contents, it didn’t die) and I was without all my phone numbers when I really needed them. The phone numbers were there, in the backups, but they wouldn’t restore. I did get them restored eventually, but that’s not the point. After
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I’ve been getting a few of these emails lately. It’s my own servers rejecting email I’m send to myself. I’m not sure yet where to adjust these settings. I’m not even sure what software is rejecting it. I suspect amavis. Return-Path: <dan@supernews.example.org> X-Original-To: dan@nyi.example.org Delivered-To: dan@nyi.example.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.example.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2F350BC6 for <dan@nyi.example.org>; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:47:15 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.org Received: from
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I’ve been thinking about giving up my mail servers for a while. After many years of getting great satisfaction from running my own, I’m thinking of letting Google run them for me. Economies of scale means Google can do a much better job than I ever could, and for a very great price. For $12 a year, Google will be my MX servers. I won’t have to upgrade software, worry about them going
I should have tried mail/enigmail-thunderbird not mail/enigmail Let’s see how this goes.
Here is my latest contribution to fight spam: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html
I’ve taken quite a liking to spamd and pf. I’m in the midst of documenting how to set it up on FreeBSD. I found one snag today: spamlogd was not updating the spamd table. It seems I’ve found the answer on the pf mailing list. Stay tuned.