August 31, 2004
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August 31, 2004
MailScanner: Stable 4.33.3 released
August 29, 2004
spammers and the filters
Came across a very interesting entry on Justin Mason’s blog:
Open Source v Closed Source spam filtering
which explains how spammers test closed-source email filters. I suppose it makes sense, but it’s still quite scary that theyse people invest so much time and effort in circumventing company’s best efforts to protect their clients’ inboxes.
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August 29, 2004
MailScanner 4.33.2 [beta]
Julian released two beta versions of MailScanner today – 4.33.1 was quickly replaced by 4.33.2
The more interesting changes are in MCP, which is now fully integrated into MailScanner.conf. Although I’m not using it on any of our production systems it’s still a very interesting feature that could prove useful in some situations.
Another feature that was added not so long ago is the -v switch (case insensitive):
MailScanner -v
will print out information on the host system, including the OS, perl version, version of MailScanner installed, as well all the required modules and any optional ones. This could be very useful when deploying/updating on multiple machines and for debugging purposes.
One of the areas that is being actively addressed is support for SpamAssassin 3. Another release candidate came out a couple of days ago, so hopefully support for autolearn and other functions will be working properly by the time it comes out.
I installed the latest beta on one system just to see how it is before pushing it out onto any important servers. As was to be expected the install and upgrade was easy.
A couple of people had reported some performance problems with a couple of the earlier releases, but watching our mail logs I didn’t see anything out of place.
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August 28, 2004
Firefox / Evolution
August 28, 2004
Debian (Sarge) Net Install ISOs
August 22, 2004
Wireless
Wired networks are very restrictive, but you really don’t appreciate how much freedom wireless can bring until you actually have it.
A couple of months ago we picked up a few wireless pcmcia cards on eBay. They are Cisco aironets which work perfectly in linux. You simply pop it in and it works (unless you’re using Suse, which is a little demented when it comes to network interfaces) immediately:
The only thing that remained “wired” was my desktop, so a PCI card was needed. I finally picked one up on ebay this evening, so I hope to have it in a few days:
Once I’ve got this installed I’ll finally be able to banish our rather noisy router (running pebble linux) to another room!! 
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August 21, 2004
ipv6
This server is now ipv6 enabled!
ipv6 info has a lot of the heavier technical info.
As this server is running Apache2, which has native support for both ipv4 and ipv6, enabling it was simply a matter of changing the vhost config slightly.
The pop/imap server, dovecot, supports ipv6 as well. All you need to do is make a couple of minor changes to the main configuration file.
Unfortunately our ISP does not offer ipv6 yet, so we use a tunnel over ipv4, while our ipv6 allocation is tunnelled from Esat. Probably not the cleanest way to do things, but it works.
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August 21, 2004
Essential Software?
What would you consider to be essential tools for your PDA?
The standard applications that ship with it leave a lot to be desired.
Obvious ones:
SSH client: The only one I’ve found that is anyway usable is PSSH. It works fine, but the default display setting will make you go blind, so change them as soon as you can.
Java: You can grab a Palm specific version over at PalmOne. When I first got a copy of it back in December 2003 there was very little information on there, but they seem to have taken some more interest in it recently, and now include links to a number of sites where you can download midlets.
Email/Web: I’m still trying to find a usable IMAP client. I tried the Qualcomm suite, but it didn’t handle my IMAP folders very well. Palm have an email client, but it’s not bundled with the OS or available for free. I’ll keep rummaging……..
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August 21, 2004
Film Release Dates – Ireland
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