Mark email as read with procmail and maildir
I am subscribed to several mailing lists but dont actually read a couple of them, yet I like the idea of archiving them for future reference. But seeing those mailboxes in the list of those with new messages distract my eye, so I looked for a way to mark those messages as read immediately after downloading them. more »
Fixing exim's content scanning
Exim is a very flexible MTA and even if I consider myself a Postfix guy after 7 months I've gotta say I appreciate its flexibility and power. Very interesting is the built-in perl support, which allows you to define any kind of function to be used even to change Exim's config/behavior at runtime. One of the things I use that for is some custom content filtering. more »
Kept in the loop: newsfeeds and mailinglists I subscribe
Rss and mailing lists are an invaluable resource for anybody involved in IT. They keep you up to date, help out when you got a question you cant answer by yourself, when you need confrontation, or simply when you're so pissed off you gotta rant about it ;). So here it goes, the link of rss and MLs I read (and dont dare to rant on, dont worry). more »
Rss2Email: improve your newsfeed experience.
As for mailinglists Rss feeds are also subjected to possibly long reading delays. Surely there is little to do if you physically lack the time , but then maybe you can make it a lot quicker. I could, and did. more »
Postfix smtp-auth and sasldb
Funny enough you can find lots of documents describing tricky setups involving smtp-auth with authentication done against PAM,LDAP or database backends, but there are almost none for a very simple setup using sasldb. Like in my case, you might have a server with few users and you just want to use a single user/pwd combo rather than let them use their own credentials (which might also be used elsewhere) or add over complications with a database backend storing just a few rows. more »
[SPIKELAB-SA] Security mailing lists: xss/css annoyance DoS.
Look ma, I've exploited 10 lines of php from 1982 that nobody on the Internet has ever even heard of! more »
Hammering on the ham, a new approach to reading (lots of) emails.
Email these days is all about fighting spam, and for good reasons. But if you work in IT you are, or probably should be, subscribed to several mailing lists, news feeds and whatnot, because knowing what's going on isn't an option, it's an obligation. And once your spam has been compressed and turned into small bits, and flushed down /dev/null, your inbox still counts about 300 new messages a day. more »