postfix: Asserting You’re Not a Spammer
October 5, 2026
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This is a companion piece to articles I wrote about configuring postfix & dovecot 2.4 to handle system and virtual users on a Debian Trixie
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postfix & dovecot: Detecting Spam
October 5, 2026
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Table of Contents This is a companion piece to articles I wrote about configuring postfix & dovecot 2.4 to handle system and virtual users on
postfix/dovecot Configurations
October 3, 2026
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I recently had to configure postfix and dovecot 2.4 on a VPS running Debian Trixie to handle both system and virtual users. This post shares
Adventures in postfix & dovecot
October 3, 2026
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Table of Contents Background I’ve run a Debian VSP on Hostwinds.com1 for years now. I use it to host a number of (infrequently updated) blogs
Dealing with Stalled Debian Upgrades
February 21, 2026
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I periodically encounter, when upgrading my Debian systems, situations where the upgrade process stalls. As I recall, this generally happens when upgrading initramfs, but I
Microsoft Support Finally Solves a Problem
March 27, 2025
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I’ve been a Visual Studio Professional licensee for decades. For almost all those years my license simply autorenewed (although I did have a bit of
Tightening Postfix/Dovecot
February 4, 2025
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I use postfix and dovecot to provide email capabilities on various blogs I manage. Recently, I noticed a large number of failed postfix login attempts.
Debian 12 Upgrade Gone Awry
January 19, 2025
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This story involves Debian 12, running on a VPS at Hostwinds.com. I was getting ready to spin up a new WordPress site and was doing
Stupid Microsoft Documentation, Sql Server Edition
November 10, 2024
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It’s been a while since I played bongos on the (virtual) heads of Microsoft’s documentation staff, but that wasn’t for lack of their continued striving
Why Not Document What Works?
July 3, 2024
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I recently started trying to use the MSBuild API in a project where I need to be able to parse csproj files and then do