http://morison.biz/ Software how-tos, ideas, opinion and discussion on desktop, server, and web application development en 2006-2008, Rod Morison Software technotes@morison.biz technotes@morison.biz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:20:44 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/55 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/55 Originally posted on the wxpython-users list rod Python Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:21:57 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/55#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/55 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/55 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A55 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/48 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/48 Other How-Tos, FAQs & Ideas for mail system debug rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:42:14 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/48#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/48 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/48 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A48 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/47 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/47 Security Considerations rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:42:33 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/47#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/47 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/47 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A47 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/42 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/42 Public mail service requires a static IP and DNS support. Here is a quick list of what you need rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:42:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/42#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/42 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/42 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A42 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/46 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/46 Some of the best mail filtering technology the world has to offer...Most of this "just works" out of the Ubuntu installations. We'll add SPF checking directly info Postfix, too rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:43:12 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/46#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/46 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/46 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A46 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/45 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/45 Web-Cyradm provides web based admin of accounts, quotas and domains, along with domain level admins. Installation is not difficult...as long as you use the right version and settings rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:23:09 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/45#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/45 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/45 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A45 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/44 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/44 How to get email services up, configured and talking to each other rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:59:34 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/44#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/44 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/44 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A44 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/43 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/43 How to get a basic installation of an Ubuntu 8.04 server edition up, running, firewalled, and networked rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:44:30 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/43#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/43 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/43 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A43 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/41 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/41 Postfix SMTP and Cyrus IMAP/POP3 are highly efficient open source server packages with extensive production burn in. Add the excellent open source anti spam and anti virus tools, SpamAssassin & ClamAV, along with the Web-Cyradm for a half-decent domain+account control panel, and you get a production quality mail server competitive in most ways with top commercial offerings. However, though the individual packages install and work, considerable tweaking is required to get the whole installation working smoothly together. Herein is a how-to for Ubuntu 8.04 server edition rod Postfix, Cyrus, Web-Cyradm on Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Guide Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:57:19 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/41#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/41 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/41 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A41 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39 Ok, you're on the net! You're just as accessible as Yahoo and Google...well, not exactly, you need to tie your domain name to your static IP address. Then, email service for that domain, and your domain really will be on the net. DNS Get past those numeric IPs. You should have the BIND software installed from your initial OS setup. There are two really good graphical interfaces to BIND, Yast (built into Suse, run "yast2" as root) and webmin In spite of those interfaces, first time out, use the text config files. Understand them. BIND and these files are ... more rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:38 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A39 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37 Let's break down the top level parts for the project rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:03 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A37 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38 Go Forth and Build It Remember, these are planning guides, not how-tos. If you've done the planning and assembled everything you should be ready to go. Your next step is to put it all together, connect it, install it and figure out+solve along the way. However, there's an excellent step-by-step Opensuse server building guide I recently found: The Perfect Server - Suse 10.3. After you finish this article, give it a look and bookmark that url for reference during your project. First Life: Http Me! If you made it through, you should be able to login locally ... more rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:18 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A38 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36 Back in '99 I was determined to get out of semiconductor CAD software and into this wizzy Internet stuff. Probably the smartest thing I did back then was to build (and rebuild and rebuild) a web+email server for my own domain rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:45:45 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A36 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/34 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/34 test x testy Queries Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:21:40 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/34#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/34 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/34 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A34 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/33 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/33 test6 1.2.3 rod Queries Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:58:50 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/33#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/33 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/33 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A33 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/32 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/32 test B testy Queries Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:42:29 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/32#comments 2 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/32 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/32 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A32 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/31 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/31 test7 1.2.3 tester Queries Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:19:27 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/31#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/31 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/31 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A31 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/27 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/27 test2 1.2.3 test2 Queries Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:47:57 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/27#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/27 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/27 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A27 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/26 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/26 testing 1.2.3 test Queries Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:42:36 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/26#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/26 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/26 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A26 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/25 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/25 Rod Morison attended Caltech completing a degree in Applied Math in 1983. He worked as research staff at Caltech from 1983 to 1989 on early parallel supercomputer architectures, such as nCUBEs. After Caltech Rod joined Tanner Research shortly after it's startup in 1990 and led Tanner's VLSI design products to a position of PC market leadership. In 2000 Rod moved from semiconductor to internet, developing a multi-system equity trading platform at Ecapitalist.com. Then, as CTO of DesktopTV Rod invented a peer to peer video transport system which webcast live CNBC & MSNBC from 2001-2002. Following these ... more rod Professional Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:34:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/25#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/25 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/25 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A25