Ezmlm and Gmail antispam “features”


Ezmlm is an excellent mailing list manager for the qmail MTA.

Unless you’ve been living on the moon for the past 5 years, GMail needs no introductions.

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Useless facts found when upgrading the PC


* Superstitions: You don’t get the Number of the Beast (666) when messing around with the clock frequencies in the PC. Neither in the FSB, nor in the memories or the CPU. Begone evil thing!

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Null device R.I.P.


Yes, like in the Unix world, in windows you do have a device similar to /dev/null, with the same purpose.

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VPN, RDP, file sharing failure on Vista.


If you are on Vista (any Service Pack or version) and:

  • The network connection fails, particularly behind a VPN.
  • Mail clients may slowly respond or even crash.
  • Remote access like rdp, ssh, xwindows clients, may  respond slowly and loose the connections.
  • Any low latency protocol may experience a poor network performance.

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Cleaning up a big mailbox (the outlook way)


What happens when you leave unsuspecting active sendmails laying around, just to send logwatch report messages, for the same mail account, on linux servers, BUT for instance, with an unfinished DNS configuration (“oh..wasn’t a priority then” :P ) ?

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