Charly’s Column – Dstat The sys admin’s daily grind: Dstat
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more »Charly’s Column: SendmailAnalyzer The sys admin’s daily grind: SendmailAnalyzer
Feb 22, 2013During the ongoing battle against spam, admins should inspect their troop’s battle lines from time to time. If you don’t relish the thought of counting the dinnerware, you can use the services of a logfile inspector like SendmailAnalyzer, which works surprisingly well with Postfix and the like.
more »LibreOffice Macros Automating Libreoffice with macros
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more »Geary Email Client Managing email via IMAP with Geary
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more »Charly's Column: Biabam and Tre-agrep The sys admin’s daily grind – Biabam and Tre-agrep
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more »Chat Archive with Sugar API Storing instant messaging data with Sugar CRM 6.4 and the Dropbox connector
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more »Greylisting with Postgrey Defeat spam with Postgrey by greylisting and whitelisting incoming mail
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more »Gnublin Getting to know the Gnublin board
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