Articles by Falko Timme
About Falko Timme
Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".
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Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, email • Comments: 11Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution This tutorial shows how you can import Outlook Express emails, contacts, and account settings into Mozilla Thunderbird and Evolution. This is quite useful if you want to switch from Windows to Linux but don't want to lose your mails and address book. The procedure should be similar if you use Outlook instead of Outlook Express.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, postfix, ubuntu •
Comments: 5 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft) This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses.
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Displaying Weather And System Information On A GNOME Desktop With gDesklets
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 5Displaying Weather And System Information On A GNOME Desktop With gDesklets This tutorial shows how you can display weather forecasts, system information like CPU and memory usage, news feeds, music player controls, etc. on a GNOME desktop with gDesklets. gDesklets is a programm that can place small desktop widgets on top of the user's desktop.
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Integrating amavisd-new Into Postfix For Spam- And Virus-Scanning
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: antivirus, debian, postfix, ubuntu • Comments: 2Integrating amavisd-new Into Postfix For Spam- And Virus-Scanning This article shows how to integrate amavisd-new into a Postfix mail server for spam- and virus-scanning. amavisd-new is a high-performance interface between MTAs such as Postfix and content checkers: virus scanners, and/or SpamAssassin. We will use ClamAV for virus scanning and SpamAssassin for spam scanning in this tutorial.
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How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 2How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on a Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. It covers the usage of internal NTFS partitions (e.g. in a dual-boot environment) and of external USB NTFS drives.
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Installing The Aptana AJAX Development Environment On Ubuntu
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, programming, ubuntu • Comments: 1Installing The Aptana AJAX Development Environment On Ubuntu This tutorial shows how to install the Aptana IDE on an Ubuntu Edgy Eft system. The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
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How To Install Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) On Ubuntu
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, email • Comments: 9How To Install Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) On Ubuntu This guide shows how to install the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and 6.06 (Dapper Drake) server systems. Zimbra is a full-featured, open source collaboration suite - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. It has a feature-rich AJAX web interface and is compatible with clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, and Novell Evolution so that mail, contacts, and calendar items can be synchronised from these to the ZCS server. It can also be synchronized to many mobile devices. ZCS makes use of many existing open source projects such as Postfix, MySQL, and OpenLDAP.
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 3: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 The Perfect Desktop - Part 3: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the third in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 2: Mandriva Free 2007
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, mandriva •
Comments: 2 The Perfect Desktop - Part 2: Mandriva Free 2007 With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the second in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Mandriva Free 2007 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 1: Fedora Core 6
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 1 The Perfect Desktop - Part 1: Fedora Core 6 With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the first of a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
