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Setup a Spam-Proof Vacation Autoresponder with Procmail + Sendmail
2008-03-19 20:11:00 The problem with vacation auto responders like 'vacation' for sendmail is that spammers often fake the From: address. Auto responding to these addresses can get your mail server blacklisted. To avoid this you can setup your autoresponder with procmail and, if you are running a spam filter on your machine, you can tell procmail to auto respond only if the X Spam Status header is 'No.'
By: Server Tales
Setup a Spam-Proof Vacation Autoresponder with Procmail + Sendmail
2008-03-19 20:11:00 The problem with vacation auto responders like 'vacation' for sendmail is that spammers often fake the From: address. Auto responding to these addresses can get your mail server blacklisted. To avoid this you can setup your autoresponder with procmail and, if you are running a spam filter on your machine, you can tell procmail to auto respond only if the X Spam Status header is 'No.'
By: Server Tales
Sendmail More Domain Blacklisting to Prevent Spam
2008-03-14 02:58:00 Combing through many free domain blackhole lists the following are relatively extensive, and are readily maintained. combined.njabl.org list.dsbl.org dnsbl.sorbs.net spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net Using these blacklists in your sendmail configuration can reduce the spam received from the most common and prevailing sources. Combining these active spam prevention measures, with passive techniques spam can be greatly reduced. Passive spam prevention includes spamassasin where you ...
Sendmail Blackhole List - Eliminate Most Spam
2008-03-13 21:23:00 To configure sendmail to automatically bounce most spam use one of the countless blackhole lists that are readily available, and consistently maintained: http://www.declude.com/Articles-.asp?ID=97 An excellent blackhole list is maintained by njabl.org. Use is relatively straight forward. Add the following line to the end of your sendmail.mc file, then recompile the sendmail configuration file. FEATURE(dnsbl,`combined.njabl.o-rg',`Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - ...
Thunderbird - Built in Spamassasin
2008-03-10 23:45:00 Using Thunderbird, in conjunction with your IMAP configured sendmail is by far the best method of synchronizing you mail folder with multiple devices. In Thunderbird you should instantly turn on your junk mail “adaptive filters”. You can also set custom filter rules to send messages with particular words in the header to the junk folder. ...
Ubuntu Sendmail Boot Bug
2008-02-23 18:13:00 There are two bugs that I currently aware of regarding the sendmail boot process. The first and simplest deals with your hostname. In Ubuntu, the default configuration of sendmail and apache required a fully qualified domain name. You can adjust your FQDN manually in the /etc/hostname file. The proper format is: name.domain.com Save the file, and ...
Debian Sendmail Virtusertable
2007-12-06 21:23:00 On Fedora the virtusertable and virtual-domains files are pre-configured. On Debian you must add the following lines to your sendmail.mc file: FEATURE(`virtusertable’,- `hash /etc/mail/virtusertable’)-dnl VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail-/virtual-domains;)dnl After adding these two lines create the virtusertable and virtual-domains files using nano: sudo nano /etc/mail/virtusertable Save the file and exit by pressing control “o” and then control “x”. Do the same for the virtual-domains file, ...
Kilu
2007-08-22 22:10:00 !!! ALTHOUGH YOU ARE FREE TO PUBLISH IN ANY LANGUAGE, SOME OF THE PAGES INCLUDING THE CONTROL PANEL MAY NOT BE IN ENGLISH. !!! Free plan features Data Storage :1000MB Disk Space Data Transfer : Unlimited Bandwidth Database : 3 Mysql Databases Mysql Version: 5.0.32 Domain Hosting : No (Only a subdomain)
Kilu
2007-08-22 22:10:00 !!! ALTHOUGH YOU ARE FREE TO PUBLISH IN ANY LANGUAGE, SOME OF THE PAGES INCLUDING THE CONTROL PANEL MAY NOT BE IN ENGLISH. !!! Free plan features Data Storage :1000MB Disk Space Data Transfer : Unlimited Bandwidth Database : 3 Mysql Databases Mysql Version: 5.0.32 Domain Hosting : No (Only a subdomain)
Ueuo
2007-08-18 15:57:00 Free plan features Data Storage : 200MB Data Transfer : Unlimited (3.5gb daily to prevent abuse, can be increased if you contact support.) Database : 1 Mysql Database Mysql Version: 5.0.27 Domain Hosting : Yes (1 Domains), + 1 subdomains
Smarthost for sendmail and/or exim
2007-03-09 06:01:00 This will describe you how to set up a smarthost using either sendmail or exim, for the exim, i will only consider Debian. This is to send emails using your linux server as your smtp server, and it will use your ISP email server to send all your emails through it, to the final users. The sendmail configuration I have tested on CentOS, and Fedora, but should work on Debian and Ubuntu as well read more
Troubleshooting with mailx -v (Sendmail and Mail)
2006-12-24 13:14:00 On a number of occassions, I have used mailx -v to trouble shoot problems with Mail and Sendmail. Here's what I do.#mailx -v support@topbloglists.com (hit enter)Subject: Top Blog Lists (hit enter)Top Blog Lists has hit 100 members in less than 3 weeks. Join other successful bloggers at http://www.topbloglists.com (hit enter). (hit enter)EOT--Watch the output scroll--mailx coupled with -v are very useful because they provide the verbose output of Sendmail. It shows the connection, session and disconnect. It's very useful for troubleshooting purposes (e.g. viewing IPs, DNS, mail configurations, version numbers, etc).
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