Archive for the tag 'mail'

Who want some ? (Gmail Account)

Hey Baby .. Do you want some ? (this come from the Duke Nuke3D game..) Anyway I get 4 Gmail account to give. So the first 4 posts here will receive one.
(I’m busy right now. So don’t expect this quickly) ..

admin October 4th, 2004

Full featured SMTP in Python ?

In a recent post Ian explain he get a lot of trouble w/ the configuration of his mail system. I ran into the same issues a little time ago. Now i’m using postfix and courier-imap and maildrop to dispatch the mail between. This setup is really easy because Postfix just accept incomming mail, and maildrop [...]

admin September 1st, 2004

Blog post / Mutt IMAP Cache Vs Courier-Cone ?

The thing every blogger likes: Comments ? No ? Really ?
Anyways, i just added a RSS comment Feed to this blog. (No I won’t put the url somewhere since NewsAggregators eat a bunch of bandwith only to see nobody post, i will only give it to friends .. :)
But, this is not the main stuff, [...]

admin July 31st, 2004

SpamBayes server compliant w/ spamassassin

I’m using spambayes for a long time now. But when i decide to install it for all the curent users of my setup (w/ some virtual domains..), i just discover that spambayes don’t have a system-wide deamon like spamassasin (spamd).
So the first try:

install spamassassin :) .. This mail filtering is just a bulshit ! Even [...]

admin April 24th, 2004

Mail Archives / mdirarchive.py

Since i totally switched my mail system to imap, i’m looking for a way to keep the folders ’small as possible’. I talked w/ Phil about this, and he (http://base-art.net/wk/Article/3.html) hacked a existing python script. The main difference between his hack and the orginal one, is that now the folder are archived in a ‘normal’ [...]

admin April 19th, 2004

Securing courier-imap

I spent part of the day to install a virtual mail server, and i discover that there is a really simple way to secure courier-imap. By defaut when you use this kind of server the auth is made against the standard pam module. This is really simple, but what happend if someone is able to [...]

admin February 29th, 2004

Enjoy Mutt

I get it! I managed to use mutt w/ my imap folders, with hooks and everything fine. This is not really hard, but :

libsas-modules break the SSL certification (without any error message)
mutt really lack of header cache for imap (there is a patch for Maildir but no for imap)

### IMAP ########################################
set imap_user=”soif”
set spoolfile=imaps://mail.larsen-b.com/
set folder=imaps://mail.larsen-b.com/INBOX
set record=imaps://mail.larsen-b.com/INBOX.Sent
mailboxes [...]

admin February 18th, 2004

I want SPAM now

After using the same email address since 1996, i haven’t receive a lot of spam. But since I open this weblog, every days my mailbox is full of junk mail and other f*cking spam.
So yesterday i try this: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
It’s took me about ~10 min to install / train it. And YES ! it works perfectly, [...]

admin December 13th, 2003