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Dohlisting

I’ve been using postgrey for a while now in order to cut down on my spam. However, a few days ago, I realised that I hadn’t also killed my backup MX. So the greylisting, whilst helping, wasn’t being as effective as it could.
A few days ago, I decided to get rid of the [...]

Posted 19 February 2007 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Comment Spam

Finally the spammers have found me. I’ve got about 30 comment spams in my moderation queue this morning. Good job I enabled the moderation in the first place…
Anyway, to help with sorting it all out, I wrote a

Posted 25 October 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

HP “Extended Capabilities”

I’ve just installed some printer drivers for an HP Officejet at work. Half way through, the installer popped up a question: Do you want to install HP Extended Capabilities? Well, I have no idea what they are, so I clicked on “More information”. This is what it said:
This software can help you [...]

Posted 21 October 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

bogofilter–

I use bogofilter for spam filtering. However, I’m getting quite unhappy with it. It has a nasty tendency to corrupt it’s db files resulting in messages like this:
bogofilter[9794]: error: the data base file size is only 16 pages
bogofilter[9794]: below the resource limit. Cowardly refusing
bogofilter[9794]: [...]

Posted 19 August 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: