Dazed & Confused

As I said I’ve been wrestling with Exim for the last couple of days. The mess started when I started as MX for a new domain with primarily forwarding to a couple of external addresses.
The problem occurred because the server the mails were forwarded to checked the domain in the sender address. My current [...]

Alright. I’ve been wrestling with my Exim configuration the last couple of days. It seems I have to learn all the commands all over each time I find a problem so here is a short list for me to remember:

exim4 -Mlv [msg-id] : list history
exim4 -Mlb [msg-id] : list body
exim4 -Mlh [msg-id] : list header
exim4 [...]

As I mentioned in this post I’m running Exim with Spamassassin and ClamAV. Because we’re running on a virtual machine the loads could get quite high because other VMs on the same physical host was using too much resources. Loads could get as high as 20 on a 15minute average. Beeing the great guys [...]

I’ve just switched to WordPress, and from my stats I can see a lot of sites still checking my old RSS feed. So I set up Apache with a rewrite rule to redirect to my new RSS feed. Works like a charm. No rocket science, but you might find it useful:

RewriteEngine On
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Alright. So I’m administering this Debian virtual machine at Bytemark which runs as a mailserver for me and some friends. Having it in a vhost gives us a reasonable level of security against power-failuers and hardware crash. And especially at that price. It’s a great deal, and great service.
One of the reasons we pay money [...]