Archive for the ‘Email’ Category

November 2nd, 2009

Easy fix to unfreeze Thunderbird

2 Comments, Email, by Donncha.

If you use Thunderbird like I do you may have noticed that HTML emails cause it to freeze momentarily. For…

February 7th, 2008

A pint of Guinness flavoured spam

5 Comments, Email, by Donncha.

It seems that someone signed me up for “Guinness Poker Nights” and Guinness, God bless their black hearts, saw that…

November 27th, 2007

Oh wow! Bon Jovi LIVE!

1 Comment, Email, Humour, Movies, Music, by Donncha.

Oh yeah baby! Bon Jovi are playing live at the Punchestown Racecourse on Saturday 7th June, 2008! I can’t wait!…

November 1st, 2007

Does your Mr. Winkie need upgrading?

1 Comment, Email, by Donncha.

Sometimes trawling through the Gmail spam folder is worth it. One email reminded me of the Scrub’s character, Elliot Reid…

October 2nd, 2007

Will Monster.ie get away with spamming?

5 Comments, Email, by Donncha.

Oh dear. Monster.ie is the latest company to spam bloggers. Both Michele and Tom were spammed as part of an…

September 4th, 2007

gmail: no third-party DSNs

5 Comments, Email, by Donncha.

Be careful if you forward email to a gmail account. Gmail doesn’t like receiving mail delivery status notices or reports….

I’ve been running Spamassassin and Postgrey on my mail server for the past few months. It was only since the…

Greylisting is an anti-spam and virus measure you can use on your mail servers. When a remote server connects for…

November 10th, 2003

Thank you SpamAssassin, again!

1 Comment, Email, by Donncha.

Every Monday morning it’s the same. There’s a pile of spam and it numbers in the hundreds of emails. Thankfully…

September 24th, 2003

Spamassassin – scoring on DSL lines

1 Comment, Email, General, by Donncha.

Since upgrading to Spamassassin 2.60 yesterday I’ve noticed a (small) increase in false positives. There were only 4 out of…


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