Out of Control®

Last week I did a short post on testing MailScanner to be sure it was scanning properly. An alert reader pointed out that I missed the easy solution, which was to simply use 'MailScanner --lint' to check if MailScanner was running properly. Since I wrote that article, I found that my MailScanner was again hogging [...]

I noticed on one server today a huge CPU load. A quick look at Netstat showed that most of the current traffic was coming from someone in Africa. I crossed referenced the IP address from Netstat with the access log files on the various sites on the server and saw that it had a UserAgent [...]

If you are getting a 'collect: premature EOM: unexpected close' in your mail logs, or if you have people complaining that they cannot send email to your server and you have this error, then I might have a solution to your problem. To solve this error I found this link by searching in Google: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.10 [...]

A few months ago I installed AuthImage on one of my WordPress installations and only just got around to getting it fully up and running. Don't get me wrong, it is a brilliant little plug-in, but it does require a wee bit of manual tweaking in your code. You can find AuthImage here if you [...]

This blog is run on WordPress. As you can probably tell by the all too typical look that WordPress has. It seems that no matter what one does to a WordPress theme, it will still look like WordPress. Alas, that is not what this short is about. All of my WordPress installations, about 5 last [...]

This story is about the 'Deferred: 452 try later' error message when sending email to Videotron.ca mail servers. A couple of weeks ago I started having terrible problems with email sent from my server to any Videotron email account. I checked, double checked, triple checked my server for a mistake in my config files. Nothing [...]

For a couple of years now I have been using Spamassassin with great success. Over time I occasionally would teach Spamassassin what spam is with the 'sa-learn --spam mboxdata' command. It has been awhile since I did this and figured it was time once again to teach Spamassassin a thing or two about spam. Locally [...]

Occasionally I get a server that starts tossing out emails with no message body--blank emails. Today I noticed that I also get a 'Failed to link message body between queues' error in my daily (nightly really) LogWatch. After a little research I re-discovered the fix to the blank email message body... I hope. The solution, [...]