Category Archives: Tech

webserver upgrade

It seems that APC is causing some issue with our WordPress installation so we’ve disabled it for now. We took this opportunity to upgrade our webserver to run Apache 2.2 for which readers may find the list of new features … Continue reading

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software upgrades

Sorry, it’s been a while since the last post. Real life interfered for some volunteers but still software toolchains were upgraded and we have migrated our authorative DNS servers to the new server Our DNS server is tinydns . This … Continue reading

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Plain(text) Simple

When you have an important message to convey (or perhaps a not so important one), it’s all too easy to fire up your text editor and send out email with fancy fonts and lots of bright colours. Why not attach … Continue reading

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Knock-Knock, Come Again

One of the ideas we had implemented for a while on our edge mail infrastructure was the concept of Greylisting. The goal of greylisting is to reduce the amount of spam that reaches user mailboxes by taking advantage of the … Continue reading

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Building a stronger edge infrastructure for email

qmail has a lot of quirks due to its design of small compartmentalized daemons. One of the issues which impacts us a lot is its delayed-bounce behavior. An out of the box qmail installation only rejects mail for recipient domains … Continue reading

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