Lateral Opinion

A tool to integrate qmail-smtpd with clamav and spamassassin. ...

My collection of qmail-spp plugins. ...

Learn how to use RBL effectively with qmail and qmail-spp. ...

A tutorial explaining how to create RPM packages using checkinstall. ...

A simple program to list all valid email addresses on a QMail sistem. ...

Step-by-step tutorial for the installation and configuration of a more spam-aware replacement for qmail-smtpd. ...

This article describes how to integrate spamassassin with qmail with a minimum of fuss. ...

This article describes the queue system of qmail, and the tools you can use to manage it. Also, it introduces a new one, called qmail-cleaner, to find messages in the queue that match a given regular expression. ...

Since yesterday this blog is ten years old so, time for some history. ...

It should not happen but it does: Your qmail server is overloaded. Maybe you are under a DOS attack, or there is a reason why you are getting 10x your usual amount of mail. ...

According to Slashdot , at least. ...

- If you don't know what qmail-spp is, please check it out. It makes qmail much much better. ...

Checking on my semi-dead projects, I found that one was almost finished but I had forgotten about it: rater ...

I am hacking a bit on rater my daemon/client to see if things are happening more often than they should (in other words, generic rate limiting). ...

RaSPF , my C port of PySPF , is pretty much functional right now. ...

I am using ra-plugins as a toy to do things I never bothered in other projects. ...

UPDATE: There is *another* *better* test suite It is in YAML, though, so I need to parse it before I can use it, but that's my problem. ...

A few people have asked me for the code. Ok, here it goes. ...

Version 0.2.9 of ra-plugins, my qmail-spp plugin collection is coming soon. ...

I have been procrastinating about creating my own Linux distro for at least three years. Guess what? I will still procrastinate about it for a few more, but that doesn mean I can't write about how it's supposed to work ;-) ...

Traditionally, you graphed your system's status using MRTG but nowadays, there are much nicer tools, and I like Munin . ...

No, do not use gdbm. Probably not bdb either. ...

The only current software I wrote that some people actually use is called RA-Plugins. It's a series of proggies you plug in your SMTP server's conversation, and do diverse things with it, like rejecting messages that fail certain criteria, checking the status of the recipient's account, whatever. ...

I am playing with CMake. Specifically, I am trying to replace the simplistic handmade Makefiles for my RA-Plugins project. ...

Having running statistics on your systems is always a good idea. ...

I wrote Linux/Unix applications for ten years before I wrote my first man page. ...

Just a tiny update to the Makefile, so if 0.2.0 worked for you, ignore this. ...

Yet another little program. ...

After a very long time, I have decided to make one of my projects public. ...

A new story in the " Fighting Spam with Qmail " series, after an over two year hiatus. ...

I will make some of my work public. ...

Well, I am in the middle of migrating a rather large mail server, using qmail+vpopmail+mysql+courier-imap. ...

I am writing a sort of web-based admin tool for a client, and I had this problem: How do you validate a system user from a script? ...

Be it evolution in general, micro-evolution or macro-evolution. ...

I have been installing qmail servers for a while. ...

Last week, I gave a conference [1] about KDE in the first free software congress of Argentina. ...

It has been way too long without posting a longer item, so... I recicled a script I wrote for a customer, and here it is: ...

Adds tarpitting to qmail-smtpd, which is almost mandatory for a modern large SMTP server. ...

I just spent the afternoon at a client's hacking qmail+courier to work storing mail on a NT server. ...

I have been using Bruce Guenter's nice Qmail rpms for years, but he doesn't seem to be working on them much. ...

Part II of the series. In this article, we replace qmail-smtpd with qpsmtpd, which is more flexible and spam-aware. ...

So, Linuxtoday picks it, and it had a serious mistake: ifspamh is not a perl script, but a korn shell script. ...

Well, what the title says, mostly :-) ...

Linuxtoday.com and linux.com linked to it. A couple of mistakes pointed out and fixed. Switched to py2html python code while I was at it. ...

Brand new article, just finished writing it. ...

I took a couple of days off programming, and today I got back into it. I am doing some nifty stuff with mrtg. It's amazing how many different things you can graph with some thought. Today I added "number of requests off the web proxy" and "mails processed by qmail (incoming and outgoing separate)". Quite nifty to find unusual situations. On the free software side of things, KRN is right now in a shape that would make it a credible 0.6.10, but I think I will add some extra things. ...