Mail

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 […]

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

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

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.

Spam is so annoying. It takes up so much of my time. I don’t want spammers posting here. Neither do you. This morning I found 60 posts waiting to be moderated. I’ve had enough of this crap. I have better things to do with my time. Moderating spam is not on the short list. Today

I suspect spammers are paying people to post messages to my forums in The FreeBSD Diary. I started blocking them by IP address, but I quickly bored of that. Then I started required people to register before posting. That stopped them.