[Scottish] This month's meeting
Hi, Anyone got any plans for a talk this month? -- Cheers, Michael ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hardware question?
Julian Gibson wrote: > will the bios want to always boot off the SATAs if it sees them > first. I'm not 100% sure, but wouldn't this be an option configurable in the boot order in the BIOS? Michael ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] IMAP Server
Hi, Kyle Gordon wrote: Dovecot rocks. It's been surprisingly stable (even before v1), handles large maildirs nicely, has plenty of pluggable auth systems, and generally just does what it should. I recently had a review (can't find the url now), that compared dovecot, uw-imap and courier in terms of performance, and dovecot came out a clear winner. I second that. I've been running it on a number of systems for a good number of years now, and it has been great. I've just noticed recently that its auth systems are SASL-compliant, which means I can use them to set up SMTP AUTH in Postfix very easily without having to run the saslauthd daemon as well. I'm very happy with it. Michael ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Not strictly linux, but advice welcomed all the same
Hi, John Gordon Ollason wrote: I participate in a discussion board hosted in America. Yesterday, the sig line of one of the other participants fed me back my Internet address, the operating system, linux, the browser, Opera, I was using, and the company name of my ISP. All that is happening there is that they are including a link to an image generator script on the danasoft.com server, which causes your browser to make an HTTP request to that machine, which then finds out all that information from the TCP connection and the headers your browser sends. Every website you go to will get this information, often several times (once per page, stylesheet, and image etc you download). Am I making a fuss about nothing? Is there any linux software that I can install that will prevent this behaviour? One course of action would be to use an adblock-style extension, if there is one for Opera, to deny requests to that domain. Alternatively you could put something like: 127.0.0.1 www.danasoft.com into your /etc/hosts file, which will redirect any request for that domain to your own machine, which will likely fail and you won't get the image. You might need to change the name of the server. It's actually nothing to worry about, in my view. It is rather obnoxious though. Michael ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Send mail from script via remote smtp
Hi,
Paxton, Darren wrote:
Now for what is probably the bleeding obvious bit. Our standard build
has sendmail disabled by default so what I'd like to do it be able to
tell the mail command to connect to our internal smtp server in order to
deliver the message to the needed recipients.
I've done something very similar in the past to let me know if a mail
server isn't running on reboot - obviously if it's not running I can't
send the email in the normal way ;) I used a Perl script along the lines of:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::SMTP;
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new("mailserver.example.com");
$smtp->mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]");
$smtp->recipient("[EMAIL PROTECTED]",);
$smtp->data;
$smtp->datasend("From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
$smtp->datasend("To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
$smtp->datasend("Subject: Permissions problem in /tmp\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("Please fix permissions on /tmp.");
$smtp->dataend;
$smtp->quit;
Hope this helps.
Michael
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