Preventing emails going out from your development environment.
This is just a short one. In /etc/postfix/main.cf Add the following line at the bottom. virtual_alias_maps = static:<your_username> Then in Thunderbird you can collect local […]
Postfix
Plesk 12 Mailman relaying denied
If you get “relay access denied” error messages on mailman and mailman messages are not going out then check to see if you have ::1/128‘ […]
Logging from to and subject in postfix
We needed to analyse the from, to and subject on one of our servers to deal with a persistent spammer. Add this to your header_checks […]
Tracking which account is sending spam on a plesk server
This is not an easy task without knowing a few tricks as the log files are not an awful lot of help. Providing you have […]
Small Script to delete 1 or more emails from postfix queue
#!/usr/bin/perl $REGEXP = shift || die "no email-adress given (regexp-style, e.g. bl.*\@yahoo.com)!"; @data = qx</usr/sbin/postqueue -p>; for (@data) { if (/^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) { $queue_id = $1; […]
Problem with php mail function bouncing emails back to postmaster.
A server I manage hosts around 200 sites each owned by different webmasters. A number of these have form to mail style scripts. A small […]
Deleting emails from the postfix mailq by email address
To clean out some spam from the postfix mailq mailq | tail -n +2 | gawk ‘BEGIN { RS = "" } /email@domain.com/ { print […]