- Published:
- October 28, 2006 – 1:22 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
If your Mozilla Thunderbird is slow to open the inbox, or any other folder for that matter, there are two things that you can do to try to fix this problem. Step #1: The first thing is to try to compact the folder. This should help if you have a large inbox. If you can’t even get to this step, or if it is just too slow, try step #2. Step #2: The .msf “index” file is corrupted. If this file gets corrupted, you could see a slow initial loading of your inbox, messages will not open, you can not delete messages, etc. You may also see a message in the status windows when you open Thunderbird that says something about rebuilting index. The solution to this is to first close out of Thunderbird, then delete the inbox.msf file. If this is for a different folder name, you will see….
Categories: Configurations,Email,Programs
- Published:
- October 26, 2006 – 11:49 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I recently had a problem where my Spamassassin install started thinking that a lot of spam messages were really ham (non-spam). Since these were getting BAYES_00 scores of -2.5 they were almost all getting through my spam filter. These particular messages all were regarding STOCK quotes and were pretty obviously spam just by looking at the text of the messages. Somehow my Spamassassin install thought that they were not spam because the messages were being passed as ham by the Bayesian filter. Since they kept getting past, the bayesian filter kept learning them as HAM. In order to break this vicious cycle, you just need to clear out the bayesian tokens. It’s very easy to do. As root user, type: 1sa-learn –clear This starts you fresh. By default, Spamassassin won’t use the bayes filter until it has 200 spam and ham messages, so until you get to that level it….
Categories: Configurations,Email,Linux,Shell,System Administration
Tagged: spamd server
- Published:
- October 2, 2006 – 3:11 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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 the ability to do advanced spam and antivirus filtering on messages, while keeping the easy to use GUI interface for creating exchange mailboxes. When will we get a great e-mail client so we can finally ditch the Exchange/Outlook setup that most businesses rely on? I know I haven’t found a solution that comes close (I’m sorry, Evolution for Win32 needs to come a bit further, and Thunderbird isn’t even close). Anyway, once you have this system set up (there are some great instructions here, maybe I will cover this more another day), you may wish….
Categories: Email,Linux,Perl,System Administration,Windows
Tagged: Chris Covington, exchange server postfix server, GUI, Linux, open source mail server
