There have been a number of high profile account compromises due to the insecurity of password reset questions. Examples of two big ones off the top of my head are Sarah Palin Yahoo account compromise and the Twitter “Hacker Croll” fiasco. There have been many more compromises on accounts due to weaknesses in password reset questions, even [...]
Categories: Email, Social Media, Software, System Administration, Tech
I could not find any way to see how you could add an IP address as a ‘white list’ for our Postini installation. Mails coming from our mailing list manager kept getting caught in the Postini spam interface (which is probably a whole other issue, which I will need to address later).
To get Postini to [...]
Categories: Configurations, Email
Tagged: ip address, postini, white list, whitelist
For many people using hosted Exchange services, password saving problems could plague you. That is mainly because Outlook doesn’t like it if the Exchange server’s domain doesn’t match your domain.
Fortunately there is a way around this, because by the default way it is set up, you would have to enter your password every time you [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Configurations, Email, Other Code, Software
Tagged: exchange, hosted exchange, outlook, passwords, Windows
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 [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Email, Perl, Software, TCL
Tagged: Linux, Web Frontend For Increased Functionality Lyris
I used to use a Thunderbird addon to remove duplicate messages in Thunderbird. This is handy if your mail client becomes “de synced” from your mail server, whether it be an IMAP or POP3 connection. Also this can occur if you restore a backup or import mails and it creates duplicates.
However, after Thunderbird 2.0 was [...]
Categories: Email, Programs, System Administration
Tagged: mail server
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