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Top 10 Benefits of Mailing List Software

2011-05-19 by mjr

Particularly around local government, but also some not-for-profits and universities, I’m trying to persuade people to stop using huge Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) lists that they keep in their address book and switch over to using mailing list manager software. … Continue reading →

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UCEPROTECT and SORBS SPAM: Two DNSBLs to Avoid

2010-10-14 by mjr

I just had another conflict with a debatable anti-spam configuration. I think it was debatable rather than obviously wrong, so I’m not going to rant about the specific setup, but while discussing it with other postmasters, the following two Domain … Continue reading →

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Best Email Server Features

2010-09-22 by mjr

I’m putting together a list of email server features that you should look for. I’m thinking: Transport Layer Security support – this successor to SSL means that your connection will be encrypted. You want this so that your email and … Continue reading →

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Unable to Register .CN Domains

2010-01-19 by mjr

Our co-op registers domain names for others. Like most registrars, we now cannot register Chinese (.cn) domains. There’s a bit of background discussion on WebmasterWorld. While it’s always disappointing to offer fewer services, I don’t think we’ve ever registered a … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Present From Spammers

2009-12-24 by mjr

Contained in the recent billionth-spam report from Project Honeypot is the revelation that “The volume of spam drops approximately 21% on Christmas Day and 32% on New Year’s Day.” (Thanks to Raphael for the pointer.) Happy Christmas to those of … Continue reading →

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Strange Spammer Sightings

2009-09-25 by mjr

I’ve seen a couple of the conversation-spams described in Misspelled nemesis club: A new twist on spam? It looks like they exploit the typically weak moderation practices of many software discussion mailing lists. Do you think they are human-powered? Are … Continue reading →

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qpsmtpd Improved Things

2009-06-19 by mjr

As you may remember from past problems with joe-jobs, TTLLP still has a few (maybe only one left?) qmail servers rattling around. The comments on spam-filtering suggested a few possibilities for easing matters. As I wrote I would, I gave … Continue reading →

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A Question of Debian ClamAV, Freshclam and Volatile

2009-04-02 by mjr

I’m not a big fan of virus-scanning on the mailservers (I think you should bolt your email-sending computers right down so that viruses and spambots can’t send email), but it seems to be a necessity these days. So, I was … Continue reading →

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The Trouble With Big Webmail

2008-10-02 by mjr

So last week, a relative commented to me that a solicitor sent a letter in reply to an email. I suggested that it might be because the email reply address was on one of the major free web email providers. … Continue reading →

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Another Wednesday, Another Joe-Job

2008-09-25 by mjr

Yesterday, another of our mailboxes got joe-jobbed, just like last week. Again, it was one of our Exim servers (yes, one got done along with a qmail last week). Again, it was an address that should never appear as the … Continue reading →

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