Tips, Tricks and Information for the Modern Technologist

Category: Email


Thunderbird inbox opens slowly or not at all

Posted 28th October in Configurations, Email, Programs. 5 Comments

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 [...]


Clearing spamassassin BAYES filter tokens

Posted 26th October in Configurations, Email, Linux, Shell, System Administration. Comments Off

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 [...]


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 [...]