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Category: Perl


Lyris Listmanager – Hacking the Web Frontend For Increased Functionality

Posted 18th September in Code Samples, Email, Perl, Software, TCL. 2 Comments

Lyris Listmanager is a nice mailing list management system. However, there are a few features that are missing out of the frontend that make it hard to get by your day-to-day office job. Fortunately, most of it is written with TCL routines which are not encoded, which makes for easy updates to this code. Of [...]


Change your default CPAN mirror

Posted 19th October in Configurations, Linux, Perl. 13 Comments

Changing your cpan mirror. Although it seems like it would be easy task to accomplish, it seems there is no easy way to change the perl CPAN module mirror list. I have only found two ways to do this. The first way I found is to modify your Config.pm in the CPAN module. In my [...]


Postfix as a proxy to Exchange server

Posted 2nd October in Email, Linux, Perl, System Administration, Windows. Comments Off

More and more people seem to be using an open source mail server on linux, such as Postfix, to proxy e-mails coming in from the net and relaying them to their exchange server. I know I’ve had this type of setup since January and it has been working really well for me. It gives you [...]