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Some things never change. Love it or hate it, but everyone still needs email.

How to verify the remaining validity of your letsencrypt certificates

Cloud Insidr 2017-04-30 Leave a Comment

How to verify the remaining validity of your letsencrypt certificates

In order to figure out how many days your letsencrypt certificates have left, you could check an online services such as:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html

However, that won’t work for a mail server that’s not also running a web server using the same certificate.

In this case, your best bet is to check the certificate file directly using the openssl command as follows:

openssl x509 -noout -dates -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/smtp.yourmailserverdomainname.com/cert.pem

Filed Under: administration and orchestration, cloud, edge and everything in between, cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Linux, mail servers Tagged With: letsencrypt, OpenSSL

How to get a grip on your log files growing outta control: set up and force logrotate

Cloud Insidr 2016-08-24 Leave a Comment

How to get a grip on your log files growing outta control: set up and force logrotate

Logs that grow in size uncontrollably can cause unintended consequences. If you keep ignoring the situation, it will only get worse until you run our of disc space, the system starts being unresponsive or processes begin to crash.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, databases, Linux, mail servers, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: Dovecot, logs

Optimizing Postfix access maps to block incoming spam based on sender’s address

Cloud Insidr 2016-08-11 Leave a Comment

Optimizing Postfix access maps to block incoming spam based on sender’s address

Here is how you can improve your Postfix access maps in order to block incoming spam based on sender’s address.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, mail servers Tagged With: anti-spam defense, postfix, postmap, smtpd, spam

You’ve Got Mail: The Changing Landscape of Email Services and the Emergence of Unified Communications

Cloud Insidr 2016-03-29 Leave a Comment

You’ve Got Mail: The Changing Landscape of Email Services and the Emergence of Unified Communications

In the universe of email and messaging, change is accelerating. The world of IT came up with a new marketable buzzword with earth-shaking repercussions: Unified Communications.

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Filed Under: industry analysis, mail servers Tagged With: AWS, Dovecot, email, Exchange Server, Gmail, postfix, Sendmail, Unified Communications, WorkMail

How to Set Up Anti-Spam Filters Using Regular Expressions the Smart Way

Anna E Kobylinska 2016-03-02 Leave a Comment

How to Set Up Anti-Spam Filters Using Regular Expressions the Smart Way

In order to fish our spammer’s emails and other identifying information, you can use your mail clients’ log files and/or junk email. Here is how to get started.

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Filed Under: mail servers Tagged With: RegEx

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