Archive for the ‘Mail’ Category
SSL Certificate Warnings with Dovecot/Postfix
I just recently set up a new email server for the company I work with. With this new setup I’ve tried to be a bit more security conscious, forcing clients to use SSL/TLS when sending and receiving messages. Part of the process for this setup involved generating a self signed security certificate.
The problem? Outlook throws a warning message every time it’s opened.
Solution?
January 31st, 2009 at 10:09 am
| Posted in Mail, Webmastering, Windows |
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Evaluating Open Source Mailing List Managers – PHPList
A website I was working on for a friend had need for a simple mailing list. Having dealt with email before on a mass scale, I know several must haves. Things like double opt in, proper opt out, ensuring the email sender is properly identified in the message, etc. Things like this may seem like overkill for a small little list, but a little trouble now sure beats getting sued later!
Rather than writing something myself, I figured I’d evaluate some of the open source options out there to find something that suited my needs.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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Backing up your Gmail Data
For years now I’ve been relying on Gmail almost exclusively as my email solution, not only for personal accounts, but for several companies I work with as well. The breadth of features available with the Google service is incredible, one hard to match using open source tools.
That said, one aspect of Gmail that has always bothered me is backing up. What happens if Gmail goes down for a couple hours? What if your data suddenly goes missing? The lack of an SLA, not to mention that for the most part its a free service, make me worry about this stuff!
Looking around I was able to find a fairly elegant solution to back up all my emails. Here’s how you do it.
Associate mailto links with GMail!
Sick of copying and pasting email addresses from a webpage into your GMail account manually when you want to send an email? Use Firefox 3? Read on…
July 30th, 2008 at 10:01 am
| Posted in Discoveries, Mail |
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Check the Reputation of your Domain
I recently had a peek at a catchall account I have set up for one of my domains, and saw a huge amount of bounceback messages, undeliverable errors, requests for sender authentication, etc. Typical evidence seen when someone is using the domain as a part of a spam campaign.
I got curious whether this was having any negative effect on my domain. Will I be more likely to get my legitimate emails blocked now? How do I find out?
June 21st, 2008 at 2:20 am
| Posted in Mail, Webmastering |
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