February 22nd, 2010 by almiteycow
I’m a moderator (admin? op?) on a very small IRC room. I always have at least one client running somewhere, usually on my Linux computer. Naturally I use XChat. Invariably someone will attempt to contact me via IRC when I’m not around, so I whipped together a quick little XChat plugin script that’ll send myself a Google Talk message when someone writes a highlighted phrase, such as my nickname. If I’m not busy, I can then pop on and see what they wanted. Hopefully it won’t be too annoying, I can always just turn it off (I know at least one of you reads this. I will most definitely ban you if you bother me at the wrong time 
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Anyway, click the “read the rest of this entry” link for the script if you want to look at it.
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Tags: Chat, google talk, IRC, notification script, xchat
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January 5th, 2010 by almiteycow
SpamAssassin was reported to have a date-related bug in it, you can find more info here. This post will detail the way you can fix the bug if you happen to be running mailcleaner. I haven’t tested it fully, and don’t know how permanent it’ll be, but hopefully it’ll be of some use.
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Tags: mailcleaner, Server, SMTP, spam filter
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December 15th, 2009 by almiteycow
One of the places at which I do IT work runs a Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server for their email. They’d be having spam issues for quite some time, but were mostly resigned to turning on junkmail filtering, adding custom rulesets, and creating white and blacklists. Sometimes mails would go missing, but with the filter spaghetti, it was hard to tell where or why. MS, of course introduced IMF, but that was basically the equivalent of trying to stop a rushing river with a paper plate.
When I started working for them, one of the things I wanted to do was end this mess. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: email, mailcleaner, Server, SMTP, spam filter, spam issues
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