Tom is continuing with his campaign to force/persuade Beamish to do something with their offices in the centre of Cork. He is currently running a poll, which looks like it will draw rather amusing results - albeit not for Beamish & Crawford. … [Read more...] about Beamish revisited
Spam Assassin 3 problems
Spam Assassin 3 was released the other day, so I started rolling it out across as many servers as possible. We had already been testing it on a couple without encountering any issues, so putting the stable version should have been quite easy. In most cases it was, except for one Red Hat 9 server. It simply refused to go on properly. If I got it past the install, either via … [Read more...] about Spam Assassin 3 problems
BitDefender issue
A number of people reported severe problems with the bitdefender update scripts yesterday. Seemingly the processes were hanging and eating up CPU. Kevin Spicer found a good interim solution: vim /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-autoupdate Comment out the following two lines: LINE 190 system "$bitDCmd > $origFile "; LINE 253 system "$bitDCmd > $destFile "; You then need to … [Read more...] about BitDefender issue
SMTP Auth with postfix
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
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