sparkymat » debian http://blog.sparkymat.net Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:11:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Dream Mail System http://blog.sparkymat.net/2008/10/15/dream-mail-system/ http://blog.sparkymat.net/2008/10/15/dream-mail-system/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:37:06 +0000 max http://blog.sparkymat.net/?p=157 I finally have my “ideal” mail system up and running. Everything goes into a “wait” queue which is cleared on a regular basis. Only white-listed mails are moved to my Inbox.

Bye-bye spam!

Of course, I need to review mails in the queue periodically to make sure I am not about to purge valid mails, but considering how spam mails seem to bypass most spam filters, I feel this solution is more resilient that blacklisting (but yeah, not fully foolproof).

Using: qmail + courier_imap + procmail + RoundCube :-)

And yeah, currently have to white-list by adding entries manually in .procmailrc, but will get off my ass and hack the RoundCube interface to GUI-fy this.

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[Click on the thumbnail to see them full-sized]

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So, I am starting Project Need For Speed. The aim? To configure a Linux desktop that boots in a jiffy (not setting any concrete goals here) and is light on the resources. No, its not Arch Linux for me. I need everything to be just download-able and installable/configurable. That, and my love for Ubuntu, drove me to try Debian as my distro of choice.

I debootstrap-ed a new partition with Debian Sid and installed a 2.6.26 kernel and pppoeconf onto it. Switching to that now.

Watch this space for regular updates on this!

Update 1:
Xfce4 desktop w/ GDM auto-login. Desktop ready to use in 21 seconds!!! That’s good progress! Now starts the part where I add in useful stuff and pretty them up.

Update 2:
Switched to E17. 16 seconds!! And the thing looks damn beautiful! Expect screenshots ;)

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