{All the way from Cambridge}

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 may have liked. So after installing cyrus-sasl, postfix and dovecot all I needed to do [...]

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 decided to take a look into qmail. The fact that we use it within the [...]

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 of them, they all came from different servers, different providers. Now, I wonder if there [...]

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 a day, rather than over 900 a day. What an improvement. Like Rich, I had [...]