/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
Meta Tag Generator – updated
About 3 years ago I came across a fairly good, but quite incomplete, php meta-tag generator. It was capable of outputting a fairly rudimentary set of tags, but not as many as I would have likes, so I expanded it and kept it under the GPL. Apart from one or two minor tweaks I hardly touched it again until the other week, although I had been meaning to do something with it for … [Read more...] about Meta Tag Generator – updated
Vim Commands Cheat Sheet
Useful little link: Vim Commands Cheat Sheet … [Read more...] about Vim Commands Cheat Sheet
MailScanner: Stable 4.33.3 released
Julian released 4.33.3 this morning. It's basically a stable version based on the beta released a couple of days ago. He also released some SpamAssassin v3 related scripts yesterday, but they seem to have been removed from the downloads list (or maybe I'm blind) … [Read more...] about MailScanner: Stable 4.33.3 released
spammers and the filters
Came across a very interesting entry on Justin Mason's blog: Open Source v Closed Source spam filtering which explains how spammers test closed-source email filters. I suppose it makes sense, but it's still quite scary that theyse people invest so much time and effort in circumventing company's best efforts to protect their clients' inboxes. … [Read more...] about spammers and the filters