Tag: sendmail

Puppet’s Exec type is lying

Using puppet, you can trigger a command after a file is updated. This works really well where I want to update the sendmail.mc file, run make sendmail.cf and then restart the sendmail process. This is exactly what I want, but…

Fighting foreign language spam

The single largest class of spam that seems to get into my inbox is foreign language spam.  The spam seems to get through the multiple anti-spam layers I use: sendmail SpamCop SpamHaus MailScanner -> Spam Assassin / ClamAV Procmail Mac…

sendmail as a SMTP-AUTH client

For a long time now, I’ve wanted to be able to generate mail from my computer at home, but because I’m behind a dynamic DHCP address, it is hard to have a resolvable hostname.  My hosting provider would not accept…