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All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.

I get lots of e-mail, about 300 messages a day (excluding spam). Ok admittedly I don’t really have to deal with all of it immediately but if you let it go you very soon have thousand of e-mails waiting in you INBOX. more....

If you can read this, thank your sysadmin

Today is Appreciation Day

You may ask “What is a ?”

The answers you will find at http://www.sysadminday.com/ are as good as any. Being a is a somewhat and turns you into a cynic very quickly (see http://www.sysadminday.com/time.html ) and you start hanging out in places like the scary devil monastery. Your (l)users also stop talking to you mainly out of fear of hearing the truth because the last time they complained about not getting e- you answered “Well, maybe nobody likes you anymore”
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Running those legacy apps

Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I’m doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called new and improved software.  more....

Africa from the rooftops

If you have a look at the page “Where I’ve been” you will see that I have traveled in most of Sub Saharan Africa.  I travel in Africa for work, which is installing advertisement monitoring systems for one of my customers. more....

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How to fight Zombies

Anyone that runs a mail server very quickly learns how to fight spam if he wants to do his job properly. It is also one of the favourite pastimes of the clueless to think up stupid ways to fight spam. Today I saw a brilliant answer to one of these ideas on the postfix mail list. more....