Dirtbag's Blog

getting Mailman and Postfix to play nice together on gentoo

[ link: mailmanpostfix | tags: gentoo mailman postfix | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]

I just switched over the a brand new server for monsterjam.org. I decided to go with postfix for my mail server and am very happy with it. I decided to use mailman for the mailing list server. After I had everything configured, I would send an email to a mailing list, and get an email back about group mismatches..

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Getting smtp-auth to work on Gentoo with qmail

[ link: smptauth | tags: qmail gentoo | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:08:25 -0400 ]

Ive been using qmail for years and its a nice software package, but its damned hard sometimes to find accurate information on how to configure it. I finally got smtp-auth working on my server. I also enabled TLS as well. All the other smtp-auth howtos ive read are assuming that youre using vpopmail and virtual domains and other crazy shit that Im just not using. Read on for how to just do straight-up smtp auth on gentoo with the mail-mta/netqmail from portage.

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Installing mod_security on gentoo

[ link: mod_security | tags: gentoo apache | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]

I was installing mod_security on my gentoo box and was getting "ModSecurity does not support content encodings" error.

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getting qmail-scanner to emerge on gentoo

[ link: qmail_scanner_sandbox_error | tags: gentoo qmail | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]

I was installing gentoo on a fresh dell server for my church and found that qmail-scanner 1.25-r1 would not emerge correctly. Read on for how to fix it.

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