Archive for the 'email' Category

[messaging] Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

- how does antispam currently work at large email providers – how would widespread E2E crypto affect this – what are the options for moving things to the client (and pros, cons) – is this feasible for email? – How do things change when movi…

Flow Control 2.0 — IP Reputation Tool – Sendmail.com

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

IP-reputation tools from Sendmail.com (spam-score of an IP address )

Windows Live Hotmail Postmaster

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Hotmail postmaster web page

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

awesome story about how security firm HBGary was hacked, or what happens if you do not follow simple security best practices.

Atmail KB: Setting Up SMTP outbound to another port via IPTABLES DNAT

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

if you are on EC2 hosting, redirect all your smpt traffic via SUBMISSION port

So You’d Like to Send Some Email

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

post by Jeff Atwood about troubles involved in setting up your own mail server (i.e. in case you actually care that mail you send will actually reach the recipient). While I don’t agree with the post, post and comments (especially comments) do contai…

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Eleventh Circuit Decision Largely Eliminates Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail 

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

excellent article that covers recent 11th-circut decision about privacy protection of email communications and possible implications.

Email Blacklist Check – See if your server is blacklisted

Friday, August 28th, 2009

website that does blacklist lookups.

Nabble[May, 2009] – SpamAssassin – Users – learning from IMAP spam collection

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

useful notes and links to various scripts that allow spamassasin bayes learning from IMAP folder rather than from local/network directory.

I Knew How To Validate An Email Address Until I Read The RFC

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

notes about testing for valid email addr syntax