Niall has written an excellent howto for setting this up: Postfix + smtp auth It worked for me first time … [Read more...] about SMTP Auth with postfix
Archives for September 2004
IEDR – comreg again
Someone brought up IEDR and Comreg on the IIU list yesterday. I was chatting about this with a friend and he pointed me at Dave Wilson's very incisive posting about it: So the department of... The reality is that the cost of IE domains to resellers is not as high as some people would like to make others believe. Yes - co.uk domains cost less per unit Yes - .nl domains are cheap … [Read more...] about IEDR – comreg again
Dracula – Stoker and Coppolla
I finally got my DVD of Coppolla's Dracula back. I'd lent it out to Ashley about 3 years ago! I'd forgotten how dark a film it was, though I must admit that some of the cast were a little weak. Keanu Reeves' accent really grates on me, but Winona Ryder et al more than make up for it :mrgreen: Of course, to truly appreciate the film you should read the book: When I was about … [Read more...] about Dracula – Stoker and Coppolla
SA3 – RC3
Julian released a set of scripts to install Spam Assassin RC3 yesterday for both rpm and non-rpm based distros. You can get them here and maybe you'll have more luck with them than I did :mrgreen: I couldn't get it to work on the Whitebox machine I was trying to install it on, as it would not overwrite the contents of /usr/share/spamassassin After trying to rectify this in a … [Read more...] about SA3 – RC3
Throttling by IP
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm contains a number of handy little features that are not "on" by default. One which came up on the list today was IPBlock which allows you to control the maximum number of emails from a particular IP per hour. This might be useful for combatting infected machines spewing email at servers, but it still does not address the issue of … [Read more...] about Throttling by IP