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Figure 1: SpamAssassin includes more than 50 tests to detect spam.

Choosing a Spam Filter

Spam Filter Mechanics

20.04.2016

Spam filters have different modes of operation. Understanding how they work can help you choose which one to use.

Bayesian filtering , Bogofilter , spam , SpamAssassin
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Tutanota: A Promising Privacy-Focused Email Service

Productivity Sauce

31.08.2015
Despite its somewhat silly-sounding name, Tutanota is a serious open source email service and software that shows a lot of promise.
Android , Email , Encryption , privacy , webapps
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Email Articles with Fetch

Productivity Sauce

30.08.2014
Services like Pocket and Framabag offer a convenient way of saving articles, but a Fetch provides a different way of saving stories for later perusal. Send a link to a special email address, and the application duly sends you a distilled text from the provided page.
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Dig up Photos Buried in Emails with Lost Photos Found

Productivity Sauce

31.03.2014
If you've been using an email account for a few years, chances are it has plenty of photos buried among thousands of sent and received emails -- photos that you might not even remember are there.
Email , IMAP , Photos
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How I Use My Raspberry Pi

Productivity Sauce

23.07.2013
Inspired by the Things I Do With My Raspberry Pi article, I thought I'd share with you how I use my Raspberry Pi.
backup , IMAP , Raspberry Pi
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Encrypting and transferring system email with Zeyple

FEATURES: Key Service

IT specialists often rely on automatic notification for status messages and logfiles by email. A Python script named Zeyple uses GPG to protect potentially sensitive messages against unauthorized viewing.

Email , Encryption , Python
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Trojita: a Lightweight IMAP Email Client

Productivity Sauce

25.04.2013
Looking for a lightweight desktop email client for managing an IMAP-based account? Say hello to Trojita, a nimble Qt-based email application that provides full support for the IMAP protocol.
Email , IMAP
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Turn Raspberry Pi into an Email Archiver

Productivity Sauce

29.10.2012
Having your email up in the cloud is very convenient, until your Internet connection is down or email provider is having technical issues. In situations like these, having a searchable backup of all your emails which you can access locally can be a real life-saver. Fortunately, setting up an email archiving solution isn't all that difficult, and you can use a Raspberry Pi (or any spare machine for that matter) for that.
Email , IMAP , Raspberry Pi
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Defeat spam with Postgrey by greylisting and whitelisting incoming mail

SYSADMIN: Hail Mail

Vendors continue to develop new defenses against spam, one of the Internet’s most notorious pests. In this article, we integrate Postgrey with the Postfix mail server for a greylisting and whitelisting solution.

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Figure 1: The top.sh script calls the bottom.sh script, which could set configuration parameters. The administrator needs to distinguish between a simple call, exporting environmental variables, and sourcing scripts.

Bash Tips: Debugging and Configuration

19.04.2012

Even tried and trusted configurations that have proved their value through the years can be tripped up by special cases – for example, all of your users logging in with the same IP address. Experienced administrators and Bash aficionados will then enable debugging and launch a systematic search for configuration errors.

bash , Email , IMAP , Programming
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