Mailscanner allows for a very fine level of control over email content and security via its configuration and ruleset files. This article shall look at setting up per user or per domain rules for file types. It is based on my experience with MailScanner on RPM based systems, however it should work on any system running a standard install of MailScanner. Why would this be of … [Read more...] about Content Filtering with MailScanner – Part 1 – File Types
Open Source
SPF alla Microsoft – sender ID
There has been a lot of commotion in technical circles in the past week following on Microsoft's announcement that it was implementing Sender ID for hotmail. Microsoft's original plans for sender ID seemed to be quashed when the Open Source community, most notably the Apache Software Foundation, made it clear that they did not support Microsoft's implementation. The original MS … [Read more...] about SPF alla Microsoft – sender ID
Sendmail milters – not so open source anymore
A couple of months ago I mentioned sendmail milters. Snert are no longer offering all of them under an open source license unfortunately. In some ways I can understand why they are doing it. Even programmers have to eat :) - however it is still sad to see software licenses changing like that. The milter we are using, milter-ahead, is still available as "Free Source", but … [Read more...] about Sendmail milters – not so open source anymore
Adventures with Typo3
Typo3 is an advanced CMS system based on Php and MySQL. I decided to give typo3 a go for a new site I'm messing about with in my free time. I needed something that could manage the content easily without looking like phpnuke with its ugly urls and box-like layout, so typo was the obvious choice. The powerful options available in terms of content management are worth the effort, … [Read more...] about Adventures with Typo3
Google aids indexing?
Google has released a new tool/project to aid in the indexing of sites. According to one of their engineers: "It's a beta "ecosystem" that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index." They're calling it Google Sitemap Protocol (GSP) :) The … [Read more...] about Google aids indexing?