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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 10: Restricting access
Additional postfix rules and tricks to slow down and frustrate spammers and evildoers
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Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly – Part 4: Filtering with Sieve
Using the Sieve plugin with Dovecot to filter and sort incoming email
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 9: Using Rspamd as a spam milter
Rspamd is the lesser evil when it comes to a choice of spam filters – or a choice between spam filters and spam
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 8: PTR and SPF records
The easiest way to increase your odds of not getting rejected as a spammer when talking to other MTAs.
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 7: Encryption
Encrypting MTA-to-MTA encryptions for private and secure relay of email
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Customizing Midnight Commander
Quick-quitting, left-right-proportions and skinning
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Renaming music files with beets – and avoiding troublesome characters
Avoiding troublesome characters? Story of my life, mate
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Docker makes debugging a darn sight easier
Changing contexts with the push of a button facilitates quick testing
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Using Rsync on Android: Getting Syncopoli talking to the rsync daemon
Transferring files from your linux host to your phone using good ol’ rsync
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Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly – Part 3: LMTP
Assigning Dovecot the task of local mail delivery using LMTP
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 6: Relay authenticating with SASL
Piggybacking off of Dovecot to provide authentication services for Postfix.
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Powerline secrets
You know that XKCD comic where the protagonist googles a tech question and the only matching result is from a long dead thread or even forum that details…
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StackExchange Answers: Shells
Sometimes a Stackoverflow answer is so good that it helps me understand something I had kind of given up on. The distinctions of login and interactive shells are…
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How to force Steam UI doubling on linux
In 2018 Steam on linux got the ability to autodetect HiDPI screens and resize the UI accordingly. I would guess this kicks in on 4k resolutions. I’m guessing…
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Customize your keyboard layout (and have it work under Wayland)
Customizing keyboard layout is a bit of a jungle. What works when you’re on the console may not work when you’re running X which again may not work…
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