Monthly Archives: December 2006

SMTP Errors – 550 vs 450 View Comments

Well I got a lesson in properly configuring your e-mail server’s error messages. Since setting up postfix as a anti-spam and anti-virus gateway for my exchange system (see my article Postfix as proxy to exchange server), I had left the option soft_bounce = yes enabled in my postfix configuration. This worked fine for months. However, [...]

Attach files to email via command line View Comments

This is a pretty simple thing to do, once you’ve figured it out. You attach files using the following syntax: uuencode filename1 filename2|mail user@domain.name This will uuencode the file names, then pipe the output to the mail command, and mail to the user.