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Racoon Roadwarrior Configuration
Author: matija.zeman • Tags: linux, security • Comments: 0Racoon Roadwarrior Configuration Racoon Roadwarrior is a client that uses unknown, dynamically assigned IP addresses to connect to a VPN gateway (in this case also firewall). This is one of the most interesting and today most needed scenarios in business environment. This tutorial shows how to configure Racoon Roadwarrior.
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Integrate Thunderbird with Active Directory
Author: artaxerxes • Tags: linux • Comments: 2Integrate Thunderbird with Active Directory To integrate Thunderbird to the AD, you must already have installed and configured Kerberos and Samba so that you can use the net ads to obtain the information you need. There are a lot of documentation out there to get to that point. I will just highlight the main points for the sake of completeness.
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SIEVE Language for Mail Filtering Quick Guide
Author: alinap • Tags: antivirus • Comments: 3SIEVE Language for Mail Filtering Quick Guide SIEVE is a language created and used for mail filtering that broadens the filtering options generally provided by mail servers or Antispam/Antivirus applications. They work basically by comparing different keys using different comparators and comparison methods, against headers of a mail message. Based on the result of the comparison, you can apply different actions to the corresponding mail message, i.e. reject, discard, redirect, etc.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, debian, postfix •
Comments: 71 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV) 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.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Fedora Core 5)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, fedora, postfix •
Comments: 10 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Fedora Core 5) 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. 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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Mandriva 2005 Postfix Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus Relay Server for Exchange Server 2000/2003
Author: deeztech • Tags: antivirus, postfix • Comments: 5Mandriva 2005 Postfix Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus Relay Server for Exchange Server 2000/2003 There are a couple of linux how-tos floating on the Internet that deal with this very subject. As a matter of fact, those guides are what inspired to write this one. In the spirit of keeping it simple, let me recommend the Mandrake or as it’s currently known Mandriva Linux distro. This guide has been written with this distro in mind.
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Postfix Spam Filter using Ubuntu Dapper, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, Razor, Pyzor, DCC and ClamAV
Author: fdalmoro • Tags: antivirus, postfix • Comments: 18Postfix Spam Filter using Ubuntu Dapper, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, Rayzor, Pyzor, DCC and ClamAV This is a similar version of the HOWTO that can be found here: http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/spamfilter20050628.html. Except for using Ubuntu Server instead of Debian and MailScanner instead of Amavisd, the Postfix, Rayzor, Pyzor, DCC and ClamAV sections are almost the same.
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How To Fight Spam Using Your Postfix Configuration
Author: todgerme • Tags: postfix, antivirus • Comments: 11How To Fight Spam Using Your Postfix Configuration In this guide you will learn how to tweak the mail guide for Postfix (+Auth SMTP + Quota), http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier, setup to better combat SPAM and allow a little bit of backward compatibilty of the older Qmail systems.
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How To Compile A Kernel - The Ubuntu Way
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: kernel, ubuntu • Comments: 31How To Compile A Kernel - The Ubuntu Way Each distribution has some specific tools to build a custom kernel from the sources. This article is about compiling a kernel on Ubuntu systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from www.kernel.org (vanilla kernel) so that you are independent from the kernels supplied by your distribution. It also shows how to patch the kernel sources if you need features that are not in there.
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Creating .deb-Packages With Checkinstall
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, debian, ubuntu • Comments: 3Creating .deb-Packages With Checkinstall Checkinstall is a nice tool to create simple .deb-packages that you can use in your local network (e.g. if you have to install the same piece of software on multiple computers running Debian). It lets you compile and install software from the sources like before, but with the difference that you end up with a simple Debian package which also means that you can easily uninstall the software you just compiled by running dpkg -r!
