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Attachments at Shell - How to e-mail attachments from the command line
Challenge-Response - Critique of Challenge-Response software by Karsten Self
Challenge-Response Filtering - Collection of procmail recipes to intercept and discard annoying C-R e-mails from all known C-R mailbots
Crossposting - Mailing list post listing a number of reasons (and there are others, not cited) why crossposting between mailing lists is usually a bad idea, despite the initial attraction of so doing
Disclaimers - Why automatically-appended e-mail disclaimers are useless, in addition to making your firm look stupid in public
Eximconfig - J.P. Boggis's set of prepackaged configuration, filter files, modifications, and instructions for the Exim4 MTA to make it reject and eliminate spam very effectively
GPG Rant - Karsten Self standard essay to people / mailing lists that have blocked his GPG-signed mail
Exim Book - Practical Exim by Dan Shearer, in HTML, RTF, and Star Office formats, compressed
Exim Book - Practical Exim by Dan Shearer, in HTML format
Exim Notes - Tips for the Exim MTA from Waikato Linux Users Group
Fetchmail Procmail Sendmail - Configuring fetchmail, procmail, and sendmail to cooperate
GnuPG with Mutt - Everything You Need to Know to Start using GnuPG, but Justin R. Miller
Google Groups - How to Join a Google Group via the Web using a real, non-Google e-mail account and not get pushed into using GMail for it
Google Groups - How to Join a Google Group via e-mail using a real, non-Google e-mail account and not get pushed into using GMail for it
Groupware - All known groupware (mail/scheduling) suites for Linux
GroupWise Quoting - Add-in for Novell GroupWise to enable toggleable access to Internet-style quoting, so you don't look clueless in technical forums
HTML Mail Disabling - How to turn off HTML mail in all common mail clients, by G.E. Boyd
HTML Mail Disabling - More about turning off HTML mail in common mail clients
Joe-job headers - Headers from the original revenge-spam incident attacking Joe Doll's site in Saratoga, CA, and followup e-mails
Joe-job history - Article 'The Weekend IBM.NET Almost Died' by attorney Mark J. Welch about the original, eponymous 'joe-job' incident at New Year's, early 2007. Includes detailed history and analysis of the attack, plus background information on the nature of the grudge against reputable hosting provider Joe Doll / Joe's Cyberpost
Joe-job spams - First recorded use of spam as a revenge-attack tool against reputable sysamins. On Jan. 2, 1997, spammer sent forged-header spam to provoke the anti-spam community into attacking a reputable hosting service (Joe Doll's joes.com in Saratoga, California) that had ejected him, injecting spam over a weekend into ibm.net dial-up lines in Chicago, in apparent knowledge that IBM would be slow to react until company lawyers could be consulted. Joe-jobs are so named for Joe Doll, the victim. (Linked Usenet post, and indeed the entire discussion thread, appears to have been removed from Google News. See entries below.)
Joe-job motivation - Analysis of the famous 1997 'joe-job' attack against Joe Doll, including apparent motivation of the spammer in question (Linked Usenet post, and indeed the entire discussion thread, appears to have been removed from Google Groups. See entries below.)
Joe-job excuses - Follow-up from an interested party about the joes.com 'revenge spam'
Joe-job threats - Threatening Usenet posts related to the January 2, 1997 joes.com 'revenge spam' incident
Joe-job threats - More threatening Usenet posts related to the January 2, 1997 joes.com 'revenge spam' incident
Mail flows - Explanation of how standards-based e-mail is handled by different types of software, with block diagrams, to clarify what each mail-handling type is, and how it works
Mailman Mass-Delete - Perl script to automate deletion of all mail (e.g., spam) currently held for admin review on a Mailman mailing list
Mbox to Maildir - Mb2md.pl is an efficient and robust tool for converting mbox files to Maildir directories
MDAs - All known MDAs (mail delivery agents) and LDAs (local delivery agents) for Linux
MLMs - Guide to mailing list manager commands (incomplete)
Mozilla Mail Spellcheck - Adding spelling checking to Mozilla Mail/News
MS-Outlook to Linux - Tools to migrate data from MS-Outlook to Linux mail and calendar applications
MTAs - Comparison of all common MTAs
MTA crypto - Adding SSL/TLS support to common MTAs
MUAs - Bestiary of all known MUAs for Linux
Mutt Forwarding Attachments - Forwarding attachments in the Mutt MUA
Mutt Tips - Tips for effective use of the Mutt MUA
Nullmailers - Minimal MTA packages that (only) forward outbound SMTP to an upstream smart relay MTA
Off-list Replies - How to (and how not to) send private mail replies to postings in public on-line forums
Phoenix Mailto - Adding mailto: link processing to Mozilla Phoenix betas (e.g. v. 0.5)
Plus-Addressing FAQ - Email Addressing FAQ with information on how to use and manage 'plus'-addressing
POP3 Virtual Users - Supporting POP3 (and IMAP) virtual users
POP3-SSL Virtual Users - Supporting POP3-SSL virtual users
Postfix Antispam - Example antispam Postfix setup
Postfix Anti-UCE - Another guide to Postfix antispam config, by Jim Seymour
Postfix Tutorial - Getting Postfix going and cooperating with Cyrus IMAPd
Postfix Virtual Domains - Explanation of Postfix virtual domain support
Procmail - Joe Gross's short introduction to procmail
Procmail Exim - Configuring Exim's transport and director features to use Procmail as an MDA
Procmail Losers - Example procmail filter to autodiscard mail from users of common MS-Windows MUAs
Procmail Maildir - Making procmail support Maildir format
Procmail Mailing Lists - Single procmail recipe to auto-file almost all mailing lists' traffic
Procmail Tips - Local collection of miscellaneou procmail tips and tricks
Procmail Trollkiller - Filter to autodelete posts from a roster of trolls and all first-level replies unless the mail is addressed to you directly
RulesDuJour - The RulesDuJour bash script updates SpamAssassin rulesets dynamically as authors release new versions
Quoting - Quoting Style on Usenet: a cogent explanation of how and and why to quote properly on-line (including on mailing lists)
Quoting in Outlook - Utility to fix MS-Outlook's broken quoting style
Quoting in Outlook - Set of VBScript macros to do proper quoting and add other nice enhancements
Quoting in OE - Utility to fix MS-Outlook Express's broken quoting style
Quoting in WLM - Utility to fix MS Windows Live Mail's broken quoting style
Sendmail Delay - Curing sendmail-related startup delays on standalone boxes
Sendmail Relaying - How to alter sendmail default config (e.g., in RH8 and later) that restricts relaying to localhost only
Sendmail Disclaimer - Making sendmail append boilerplate text to all outgoing mail
Signatures - All about e-mail and netnews .signature blocks and netiquette thereof. (Understand the McQuary Limit.)
SMTP AUTH - Setting up SMTP AUTH in Postfix and Exim
SpamAssassin config - Run-through of how to configure SpamAssassin.
Spam Filtering - Comprehensive HOWTO for SMTP-time spam-rejection using Exim config as an example
Webmail - All known webmail software
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