Archive for the ‘Ubuntu Administration’ Category

Server-side email filtering (update)

Monday, November 17th, 2008

If you're having more than one computer where you look regularily for your emails (f.e. at home, at work and while you're on the way) and you get a reasonable amount of (non-spam) emails every day, you probably know the problem: Client-side email filters just don't do it. Being a novice ...

If you’re setting up exim from scratch…

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

...and you're a bloody novice like me, you'll probably stumble upon Marc Merlin's "Very detailled and featureful configuration example". If you use that one and you wonder why on earth people can't authenticate against your local SMTP via PAM, you seek hours and hours in different places, forums, IRC and ...

$_POST empty?!

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

So I was about to SSL-secure my new webmail setup, created a new cert on CAcert, installed it, configured my vhost accordingly, went to the webmail login page and... boom. Login was not possible. No error message, no log message, nothing. What happened? To make a long story short, the PHP superglobal ...

New server setup

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I finally got sick of my SuSE 9.3 V-Server when a good friend of mine pointed me to this really fancy and sexy IMAP web frontend called RoundCube last week. Written entirely in PHP 5 there was no real chance that I could get this easily working on my oldish ...