Archive for April, 2008

Is failure the first step to success?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Answer is no.
The 1st step is to try. The 2nd step is failure.
The 3rd step is to make an adjustment and try again.
Keep repeating steps 2 and 3 until you achieve your goal, making different adjustments each time.
I’ve posted this as a reminder to everyone.

SpamAssassin auto-learning issues

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

When running SpamAssassin as root, it drops the user to nobody and that is resulting in some error like :
debug: mkdir /root/.spamassassin failed: mkdir /root/.spamassassin:
Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1279 Permission denied
Here are the steps to fix it:
1. Create /var/spool/spamassassin and perform a chown “root:nobody” and a chmod 774.
2. Move all [...]

Sendmail Autoresponder HOWTO

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Sendmail is a real good SMB mail server alternative but lacks some functions. One of them is an auto responder, commonly used for out-of-office replies.
However you can add this function by using procmail.
To accomplish this copy the following into ~/.procmailrc in the home directory of the user you want auto responses for.
Make sure [...]

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