A while ago I added a new anti-spam technique to my mail server setup called “No Listing”. No listing basically means putting a high priority MX record in the DNS that always rejects mail server connections.. It seems, however, that the qmail mail server can’t cope with that. It’s not RFC compliant.
Tag Archive: mail
Nov 15 2012
Adding Envelope Sender in sendmail
Fair warning: This post is pretty darn technical and is of little interest to people who don’t muck around with Linux and/or mail servers. Recently I had a problem with someone on a midrange.com mailing list where they sent obvious spam. The problem was, they were a subscriber to the list and had posted before …
Nov 19 2009
Report as SPAM
It’s nice that many of the major mail providers give you the ability to report a message you’ve received as spam … but some of them make it far TOO easy to report something as spam. I’ve noticed that many of the big names put the “Report as spam” button way too close to the …
Mar 16 2008
iPhone
We bit the bullet … we got iPhones. Our Verizon cell phone contract has been up for quite a while and they’ve been bugging us to re-up for a new two year contract … but I haven’t been super happy with the service and phones, so we started thinking about what other provider and …
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- Power Systems Job BoardRecently the Power Systems Academic Initiative launched a Power Systems Job Board featuring entry level and internship positions: powersystemsjobs.com. If you are a Job Seeker you will find a list of computer-related technology jobs available today in business, health care, government, and other organizations that are looking for skills to satisfy their Inf […]David Gibbs
- 19 YearsToday is midrange.com’s 19th birthday (using the domain registration date). Next year will (obviously) be 20 years that midrange.com will have been providing free resources to the IBM i (System i, iSeries, & AS/400) community. We need something to mark the event. I’ve got some ideas … but would be interested in hearing what the […]David Gibbs
- Command DefaultsThis may seem to be a no-brainer … but it’s very important to NOT change command parameter defaults on commands in the QSYS library. This is especially true if you use 3rd party software that may not expect your commands to have different defaults. Over the past few weeks I’ve been struggling to help a […]David Gibbs
- Have DDS Files Finally Gone Way Of The DinosaurIf you are still cranking out the traditional physical and logical file with DDS I think it’s time to get up to speed with SQL for both creating and querying files. For a long time I held onto using DDS, but with the capabilities in SQL if you are still clinging to DDS I think […]John Andersen
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