Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

2020-06-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 07/06/2020 à 20:25, Ralph Seichter a écrit : > Sources, please. A colleague of Kenyan heritage told me that he is, in his > own words, "sometimes amused but mostly annoyed by the American political > correctness movement". To my European eyes (living in France, born in Austria, Hungarian family

Postfix restrictions

2020-06-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently fine-tuning my mail server (Postfix and Dovecot on CentOS 7). SPF, DKIM and DMARC work fine, now I'd like to limit the spam tsunami. Besides the official Postfix documentation, I've read a few articles about Postfix spam restrictions, namely these : https://www.linuxbabe.com/m

Re: Introduction & question about whitelisting

2012-03-20 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 20/03/2012 17:53, Noel Jones a écrit : You sure that mail is really from hotmail? The IP shown in your log snippit is owned by Microsoft, but doesn't seem to have an rDNS hostname; that's quite unusual for hotmail as it's common practice to reject clients with no rDNS. And the HELO name does

Introduction & question about whitelisting

2012-03-20 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm an Austrian Linux user living and working in South France. I've just setup a basic - and working - mail server on Debian Squeeze, using Postfix and Dovecot. I've installed policyd-weight for basic spam filtering. Since the defaults are quite restrictive, I thought I'd try with a bit