A mail transport agent (MTA) provides the “plumbing” for your email system by taking mail from a client application such as Evolution or Mozilla Thunderbird and routing it to the correct location on the right machine. There are plenty of good MTAs, such as Postfix, Sendmail, and qmail, but these popular mail servers require a [...]
Mail servers today are especially overburdened with Spam. This is actually costing organizations millions of dollars in purchasing hardware just to process the Spam. It takes server memory and CPU cycles to determine if an email is Spam or not and as Spam increases new servers have to be built to separate the [...]
This document describes the steps needed to add a third spam filter
strategy to your ISPConfig 2.x installation. It will allow you and your
users to select, wether they want to drop spam, allow spam or move it
to the corresponding IMAP junk mail folder.
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In part one of this tutorial looked at installing and configuring greylistd alongside Exim to help combat the evils of Spam. In this second part I will look at getting some information out of greylistd — handy if you need to troubleshoot why the CEO’s “urgent” message hasn’t arrived yet!
Captain Slog
Greylistd is the daemon called [...]
This article is contributed by Sam, one of our SuSeGeek readers to all us openSUSE users. Thanks Sam!!!
Sam says “Having searched for ways to access my Windows Live Hotmail account using Evolution I came across an article on the Ubuntu Forums regarding the hotwayd package. The original document is based on the procedure from ubuntuforums [...]
Traditional methods of spam protection involve using Bayesian detection rules (usually via SpamAssassin) on messages after they have been accepted by your server. Most mail sysadmins may have encountered the constant cries from their users asking “can’t you stop them sending it?”. Of course you can’t stop somebody sending a message but you can stop [...]
The usual practice of configuring your email client to retrieve email from your ISP’s servers works well, but not for all situations. Suppose you add a laptop as a compliment to your desktop machine, or you’d occasionally like to use your spouse’s computer to read your email — you can run into problems trying to [...]
Email is one of the least private and least secure forms of communication, although few people realize this. MixMaster is one way to allow secure, anonymous communication even over the very public medium of email. This tutorial will get you started with MixMaster quickly and easily.
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Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail. Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you [...]
This short mini-howto will help you set up automatic cleaning
of Trash- and Junkfolders. Most (web)mail clients (can) automatically
create these. A lot of people don’t clean there maildirectories causing
Junk and Trash folders to grow massively in size and with ISPConfig
(not yet) being able to set good maildirectory size limits the
alternative is to have these folders cleaned [...]
I would like to show you, how easiliy incoming mails can be monitored using a cute little GNOME applet called Gnubiff.
Gnubiff is a program designed to notify about new emails, but this is not its only feature. It supports: pop3, apop, imap4, mh, qmail and mailfile protocols. It also supports SSL and certificates. You can [...]
Before you start, it’d be good to gather some information about your Exchange server setup. It’s also very important to read all the documentation you can get.
As soon as you have read the documentation, start gathering information such as the following:
* Do you have an Exchange account? (necessary)
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This article shows how you can install the Zimbra Desktop
email client on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. Zimbra
Desktop is a full-fledged replacement for email clients such as Outlook
or Evolution, offering email, contacts, calendar, documents, tasks,
etc. You can use it in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite
(ZCS) or any other email account that supports [...]
The latest development snapshot of Opera 9.5 has full support for virtual folder with powerful filter which supports a regular expression. Let’s give it a try! Adding GPG signing and better multiple identity support would be an icing on the cake.
I’ve been struggling with various mail clients to deal with my huge IMAP mailbox which [...]
This how-to refers to the installation and configuration of
Clamav 0.93.3 (from sources) on a Linux server running CentOS 5.2 and
sendmail. We assume the fact you’ve installed sendmail from the rpm
packages of your distribution.
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