Tag: mail

Sending yourself a test virus

I found this handy little site to send yourself a harmless test virus. Read More »
By halfgaar, 10 months ago, on April 14, 2011, at 11:04 | No comments

Working with a postfix mail queue

Some useful commands when working with a postfix mailqueue: "postsuper -r ALL". Requeues all messages. "postcat [file]". Views queue files in /var/spool/bla. "postqueue". Deal with queue. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on September 22, 2010, at 14:09 | No comments

Default e-mail addresses for domains

Sometimes automated services or people need to contact some domain administrator for a certain domain. There are a couple of addresses that should be present by default. Google uses these addresses to notify you when they put you on their malware blocklist: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on February 22, 2010, at 20:02 | No comments

Configuring a Debian satellite Exim server

A very common way to configure Exim on a Debian machine, is to make it a 'satellite'; a server which uses another SMTP server for sending and does not do local delivery, the latter being the difference with a 'smarthost'. It can be used by other computers in the network to send mail, but also by the machine itself, to send system notifications and such (one of my favorite apps, arpwatch, for example). Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on August 03, 2008, at 22:08 | No comments