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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I’ve been running with a MySQL backend for virtual hosting for some time, but when I discovered Phamm and the added FTP feature (amongst others) I decided to switch to LDAP as backend for Postfix with virtual hosting. In view of the fact that the installation and configuration guide of
Phamm is lacking some basic information [...]
This tutorial describes how to install a complete mailserver using Postfix and Dovecot on an Arch Linux
machine or VPS. This specific tutorial is based on my 256MB VPS. Basic
linux knowledge is required as I’m not describing every step in detail.
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I know a few of you, like me, have been continuing to use it since. Unfortunately, a few days ago CheckGmail stopped working with a Error: Incorrect username or password dialog. I’ve found a solution for this. Skip down this post if you’ve already installed CheckGmail.
Installing CheckGmail in Ubuntu 8.04
Install CheckGmail from the package checkgmail [...]
ow many times has this happened to you: you want to access a remote server, but you can’t because it is behind a firewall? I frequently found myself in such a situation when I needed to access my Internet-connected server running Linux, so I thought of a system where I could start controlling my server [...]
The Postal project includes three programs aimed at benchmarking mail server performance. The main program, postal, sends email messages to a specified list of destination addresses at a specified rate. Postal can let you see how fast your system can process incoming email and thus can help you measure improvements to your mail server when [...]
My email server uses SMTP AUTH with PLAIN or LOGIN. Thus the password is send without encryption (base64 doesn’t count honest). The server listens on port 465 so that the password can be encrypted using SSL, if people prefer not to send their password in plain text (my users generally know not to do that, [...]
This howto will explain how to go about setting up an email server
on Centos 5 using Postfix, Dovecot, RoundCube, Virtual Users/Domain and
phpAdmin. I have also done a similar setup on Fedora Core 6. My best
advice is to set this up first on a workstation and test it thoroughly
before setting up on a server and going [...]