Posts tagged #mail

Hostname and (Apple) Mail Server Dependencies

My Mac Mini with OSX Server had this thing that the hostname (as displayed in the Terminal app) would change after a reboot. Something that annoyed me tremendously. Thankfully there are several (Terminal) commands to change the hostname (back) to its 'original name'.

Since I wanted to change my hostname PERMANENTLY, I used the following command:

sudo scutil –set HostName new_hostname

This worked perfectly. Or so I thought.

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Posted on June 29, 2011 by Willem and filed under Apple, Internet, Tips'n Tricks and tagged Splunk amavis amavisd hostname mail refused.

The Holidays are Coming?

Is it just me or is the most expensive month of the year coming soon? It's that or there's a new worm/virus/trojan at work trying to deliver spam on my mailserver.

'Great' deals on SoftwareCurrently, I have over a hundred rejections an hour (normally one or two a day), and the ones that make their way through are either;

  • 'great' deals on (replica) Rolex, Viagra, Windows/Adobe Software and other stuff, or
  • about making >$3000USD a month with only 2 hours of work a day.

Anyway, I hope that the spam protection in the Snow Leopard mail server is as good as my current MDaemon mail server.

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Willem and filed under Annoying, Personal and tagged mail mdaemon spam.