Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category

Ezmlm and Gmail antispam “features”

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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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Null device R.I.P.

Monday, July 13th, 2009

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.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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)

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

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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