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Spam reaches all-time high of 95% of all email
7 months ago
A new report examines the appearance of new kinds of attachment spam such as PDF spam and Excel spam together with the decline of image spam, as well as the growing threat of innocent appearing spam containing links to malicious web sites. -
Building Scalable Email Systems
8 months, 1 week ago
Issue 8 of o3 magazine is now available. This issue provides an end to end guide for building enterprise grade email systems using FOSS. It looks at how to build secure SMTP appliances with Postfix, moves on to using Dovecot to provide IMAP and POP3 and then looks at RoundCube to provide a web-mail solution, followed up with an article on deploying DSPAM with ClamAV for anti-spam / anti-virus protection. The issue is complete with a look at Encrypting email protocols, integrating Voicemail with Email systems, and a look at MobilityEmail as a replacement for Outlook on Windows clients. -
Setting Up Postfix As A Backup MX
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Falko Timme writes "In this tutorial I will show how you can set up a Postfix mailserver as a backup mail exchanger for a domain so that it accepts mails for this domain in case the primary mail exchanger is down or unreachable, and passes the mails on to the primary MX once that one is up again." -
Set Up A Fedora 7 Mail Server Using Qmail Toaster
10 months, 4 weeks ago
"Qmail is an Internet Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for UNIX-like operating systems. It's a drop-in replacement for the Sendmail system provided with UNIX operating systems...."
Linux.com : Mail & Messaging
OfflineIMAP makes messages and attachments available locally
OfflineIMAP allows you to read your email while you are not connected to the Internet. This is great when you are traveling and really need an attachment from a message but cannot connect to the Internet.
Add faceted search to Thunderbird with Seek
Do you struggle to keep tabs on your Thunderbird inbox? The SIMILE Seek extension might be the answer to your problems. The extension adds faceted browsing to Thunderbird, which allows you to search and manage your email messages in a radically different way than you are used to.
sSMTP: A simple alternative to Sendmail
Linux distributions have relied on the venerable Sendmail package since the early days of Slackware. But Sendmail's rich mail server features aren't an ideal solution for the typical desktop user whose primary mail support is delivered through a remote ISP. That's the perfect place for a simpler solution: sSMTP.
Bringing chat to the browser with JWChat
JWChat is a Jabber instant messaging client that is written using only HTML and JavaScript. This means that you need not install a Jabber instant messaging client in order to use Jabber, assuming you already have a Web browser installed. A Jabber client that runs in a Web browser could be just the ticket for such uses as providing instant messaging to visitors to your Web site.
Spicebird: Thunderbird, Lightning, and a dash of collaborative flavor
Spicebird is a cross-platform email and collaboration client derived from Mozilla Thunderbird. If you are a fan of Thunderbird, but need more from it than the standard build provides, you may want to give this new bird a try.
Correo combines Mozilla email functionality with tight OS X integration
Just as Camino offers Mozilla Web browsing capability tightly integrated with OS X system services, its new sibling, Correo, aims to bridge the same gap for email. The open source email reader is based on Mozilla technology, but unlike Thunderbird it ties in to core Mac OS libraries in order to better the end user experience.
How to make Kontact work with Google Apps
Recently, Gmail added IMAP support, giving the powerhouse email host the ability to interact better with third-party clients. And Google, being the friendly neighborhood do-gooder that it is, provided instructions on how to use IMAP with a variety of third-party clients. However, it forgot one popular client: KMail, the email portion of the KDE Kontact personal information management suite. Google also neglected to mention that several of its other services, such as Google Calendar and Google Reader, can work well with Kontact. Here's how you can integrate them.
Post modern mailing with poMMo
poMMo, the "post modern mass mailer" with the not-quite-right acronym, is a powerful Web server-based mass mailing program firmly rooted on a Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP (LAMP) base. poMMo has been developed with the end user in mind, which shows in its quick Web-based installation, in its powerful yet simple way of creating and sending mailings, and in its intuitive usage.
Read webmail from any email client with FreePOPs
You can send and receive messages from most Web-based email services with your favourite email client by using FreePOPs, a webmail access daemon.
Mozilla drops $3m on new company to develop Thunderbird
Mozilla announced plans this week to sink $3 million into a new Mozilla Foundation project designed to enhance the Thunderbird mail client. Early reports indicate that the as-yet-unnamed newly formed company will focus on positioning Thunderbird for use in Internet communications, including Web-based email, IM, and SMS.
Qualcomm sets the record straight on Penelope (Hint: it's not Eudora 8)
Last fall, Qualcomm announced plans to join forces with the developers of Mozilla's Thunderbird email client to produce an open source version of Eudora. Since some code in the original Eudora client is proprietary, engineers needed to rebuild the application from scratch. When the first beta release of Penelope -- a Thunderbird add-on developed by Qualcomm -- was announced this week, many people assumed it was actually a beta release of a new open source Eudora client. Adding to the confusion is the fact that Penelope is not supported on Linux systems. Jeff Beckley, co-project lead at Qualcomm, sets the record straight.
Productivity enhancers for Thunderbird
As with Firefox, you can extend Thunderbird's functionality by installing extensions. Mozilla's official extension repository has quite a few nifty tools on offer, and which ones you choose to install depends entirely on your needs. There are, however, a few extensions that you might find indispensable no matter how you use Thunderbird.
Keep users informed with PHPList
If you've ever considered throwing together a mailing list to keep the members of your group, project, or organization informed, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better application for that purpose than PHPList, a free and open source newsletter manager.
Mozilla is pushing Thunderbird out of the nest
Mozilla Corp. CEO Mitchell Baker announced yesterday on her weblog that because of "the enormous energy and community focused on the Web, Firefox, and the ecosystem around it," the organization is seeking "a new, separate organizational setting" for the Thunderbird email client.
Using RBL and DCC for spam protection
I run a Postfix-based mail server that services a few hundred users with an average load of a couple of thousand legitimate messages a day -- but thanks to spam, the actual load on the server is much higher. I use Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBL) and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) clients on Postfix and SpamAssassin to reduce the impact of spam.
