Category Archives: email

Postfix + SASL + Dovecot

Posted on June 10, 2009 by pctony

After trying to find a way to make my postfix installation allow authenticated users (over TLS will come later) relay mail using SASL, on a CentOS machine using only CentOS packages I discovered it was not as easy as I … Continue reading →

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qmail here I come

Posted on February 19, 2009 by pctony

At some point today I’ll be moving from postfix to qmail as my MTA. In part my hand has been forced, after offering to host a website for my brother in law (alias overlap). So aspart of the reorganization I … Continue reading →

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Botnets! Seek and destroy!

Posted on June 30, 2008 by pctony

I have just had over 11, 200 emails delivered.  Sadly they were all NDRs [1]. Sadly some flaming idiot in Poland, has been sending out emails claiming to be me. I have looked at the message headers for a few … Continue reading →

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Spam & Greylisting

Posted on March 29, 2008 by pctony

Following on from Rich’s post about grey-listing I ran off to the website and downloaded a copy of greyfix. I quickly installed it, and setup postfix. I immediately noticed a difference in /var/log/mail I now receive about 20 spam messages … Continue reading →

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