Category Archives: Technology
System upgrade
After upgrading my laptop to Fedora Core 2 earlier this week, it was the turn of my workstation, file server and mail/web server today. The dirty deed is now complete and all of my systems are now finally running a … Continue reading
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Accounting for spam
Since I wrote about my new anti-spam measures, the spam has been furiously banging up against my virtual front door. Talking to a colleague on IRC tonight, I was inspired to write a quick Ruby script to report the progress … Continue reading
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The war on spam
I spent a chunk of the weekend working on impoving caliban.org‘s anti-spam measures. I’d been running with the same configuration for quite a while, which was basically a basic Postfix configuration on the front-end and SpamAssassin on the back-end. This … Continue reading
Next moves
I was thinking about the future today. To make any reasonable judgement about the future, one must demonstrate some wisdom with regard to the past. When I was in my twenties and dissatisfied with my first few jobs, I can … Continue reading
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Postfix 2.1
Postfix 2.1 is finally out and has a bunch of new features, ranging from the potentially very evil ability to match mail on the usual range of header and body checks and then auto-Bcc extra recipients (imagine your company’s paranoid … Continue reading
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