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Sendmail-largeboxes.conf displays warning for large mailboxes

The sendmail-largeboxes.cof file is used to display warnings for large mailboxes. The default configuration is hard coded to consider 40MB+ as large. Users will receive email warnings that they have exceeded the 40MB mailbox size. You can change the default 40MB to a different value. On my Fedora Core 4 installation the file is located in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/sendmail-largebooxes.conf. The variable to change is $sendmail_largeboxes_size = 40MB.

Block Spam from my Wordpress Blog by turning off trackback

My blog has been inundated with spam, I do not want to block valid comments only the spammers. The trackback option is enabled and this allows spammers to post comments without registering a valid email address. Turning off trackback or ping back would prevent this, I have known about this for a while but have been too lazy to get around applying the fix. But I finally applied the fix by turning off trackback, with this command in MySql, UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=”closed”.

How to install and configure Spamassassin on Fedora 4 Linux

Configuring Spamassassin in Fedora Core 4
November 1st, 2007
Spamassasin is a great antispam software that is available under the GNU license. It is free to dwonload and use. After much tinkering, downloading, and reading ton’s of articles on the internet, I almost gave up trying to get it working.

I have a Fedora Core 4 server with sendmail as the MTA for my email. I use Squirrelmail as the web client to access my emails. For the past many months I have started receiving an incredible amount of spam emails. It seems that I get approximately anywhere between 50-100 spams. Well since I am home on vacation this week, not really as I am house watching while my washroom is being reno. I have taken this opportunity to get spamassassin working on my server.