Articles by crypted

• Creating A Home Media & File Server With Ubuntu

  Author: crypted • Tags: ubuntu, samba, storage • Comments: 20

  Creating A Home Media & File Server With Ubuntu This HOWTO will give you the BEST home media and file server out there at a cheap (free) cost. It includes SSH2, Remote Desktop, UPNP/DLNA server, SAMBA Shares (Windows file-sharing), VPN server, and the Transmission bit-torrent server. The final piece of the schema is a new toy: Subsonic. This gives you web-based media streaming to watch your content anywhere via a web-browser.

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• Spam Control For Postfix

  Author: crypted • Tags: postfix, antivirus • Comments: 1

  Spam Control For Postfix Spam is a major problem for anyone with a mail server. Many times, spam goes to email addresses that don't exist. But, it still is hitting your server even if it isn't delivered. Other times, a users inbox will be overflowing with annoying messages about Viagra, hookers, free software, and whatever else. Below is a solution. It's an ongoing accumulation of my efforts to stop spam to the best of my abilities. So far, it has a 97% success rate with over 20,000 emails (spam and ham, alike) processed.

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