Posts Tagged “postfix”

Admin 101: Postfix smtp limits

I’ve just moved all my sites on to a new install of Ubuntu on one of my VPses. This site and In Photos are now on the same server again and the VPS has finally calmed down. Between configuring Apache (turn off keep alives, and reduce the number of child processes), installing xcache and the [...]

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How to create Postfix database files

Every time I come to recreate the Postfix database file when I edit the file /etc/postfix/virtual.cf I forget what command I need to recreate virtual.cf.db Hopefully I’ll check my blog next time. The command is postmap. Hope this is useful for someone else too! postmap /etc/postfix/virtual.cf /etc/init.d/postfix restart

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Filter spam through Postfix and Spamassassin

It has been a long time since I used and configured Sendmail, and I don’t miss it one bit now that Postfix is on the scene, but the amount of spam I receive does bother me. My Junk folder had reached 160MB, mostly due to some idiots sending huge spam attachments, but also because spam [...]

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