Problem: Digests in Mailman are composed of a lots of unneeded headers which clutter the messages. Solution: Edit the Mailman configuration file manually as follows: WARNING !!!: These headers are part of a the ‘RFC 1153’ which if changed can have unpredictable or unwanted effects. So here I kept the headers: Date:, From:, Subject:, Keywords(if …
Category: Email
Configuring Domain Relaying with ISPConfig 3.1.xx
Intention: Redirect (reroute) specific email addresses via, for example, an SMTP service: Steps: – Enter the destination domain in the Advanced Routing Table (Email ==> Email Accounts/Email Routing) – Enter the same destination domain in the (Email ==> Global Filters / Relay Recipients) as @domain Example: eg. rerouting all emails of destination domain mydomain.com via …
No Type list in ISPConfig 3.1.11
Problem: The brand new version of ISPConfig 3.1.11 when I add or modify an email transport, no value is displayed anymore on “type”. Solution: Ref: https://git.ispconfig.org/ispconfig/ispconfig3/issues/4924 Edit /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/web/mail/mail_transport_edit.php Change this line: $app->tpl->setVar($rec, null, true); to this: $app->tpl->setVar($rec); and should work again.
Changing the mailman subscribers ‘moderation’ bit on the command line
Intro: In my mailman installation with over 3K subscribers I could not find why the web interface didn’t allow me to change the ‘moderation’ bit of subscribers, or any other property. So I found this tool which allows me to the ‘moderation’ bit for any subscriber using the command line. Sinc ethe Python module for …
Rectify mailman URLs after a hostname change
Intro: I had to change the server name of my mailman server. I changed it in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py as follows: # Default domain for email addresses of newly created MLs DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = ‘mailman.myserver.com’ #————————————————————- # Default host for web interface of newly created MLs DEFAULT_URL_HOST = ‘mailman.myserver.com’ BUT! Some links in the mailman site were OK …
Blocking reception of full TLDs
Intro: Lately I was receiving a lot of spam from a ‘.date’ TLD sources and wanted to block all these emails using Postfix. Here is a solution found at: https://serverfault.com/questions/728641/blacklisting-tld-in-postfix/728658 Steps: Install the Postfix PCRE dictionary apt-get install postfix-pcre Configure postfix postconf -e smtpd_sender_restrictions=pcre:/etc/postfix/rejected_domains postconf -e reject_unauth_destinations=pcre:/etc/postfix/rejected_domains Edit the new file /etc/postfix/rejected_domains with the following …
OpenDKIM doesn’t start after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch
Introduction: After having done a dist-upgrade fo Jessie to Stretch OpenDKIM didn’t start any more. After research I found the answer which worked for me in this site: https://serverfault.com/questions/847435/cant-change-opendkim-socket-in-debian-stretch-in-etc-default-opendkim INFO: I’m using the ‘inet’ socket for the communication between Postfix and OpenDKIM at port 12345. eg. My config in of OpenDKIM in Postfix: milter_default_action = …
Transferring IMAP account mails and folders to another IMAP account on another server … or locally.
Introduction: The other day I was asked to install a completely new email server and transfer all the email accounts from the old mail server to the new one. I noticed that since the new mail server was using a different mail INBOX format I had to do some research and found this really good …
Hardening the SSL security in Apache, Dovecot and Postfix
Introduction: After having gotten a report from OpenVAS that my SSL security level of the mail server were medium, I looked for ways to improve this. I found very good sites which helps me making these improvements: https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html https://wiki.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration Click to access applied-crypto-hardening.pdf Based on this site and extending to cover dovecot mail service here …
Whitelisting Hosts in Postfix/Amavis
Introduction: I have an email server with very strong spam filtering and every now and then it does see the emails that I send from our own networks as SPAM. In order to bypass the SPAM scanner for those networks without bypassing the virus scanning of Amavis I found these instructions in Internet at: http://verchick.com/mecham/public_html/spam/bypassing.html#1 …
Fixing Spamassassin in Debian Jessie(8)
Introduction: For a long time under Debian Wheezy Spamassassin was running quite well until I upgraded the system to Jessie. That is when Spamassassin(spamd) started to crash every now and then without giving much reasons why. Cause of error message: Looking in the system logs(/var/log/syslog) I found the following error: spamd[7490]: util: refusing to untaint …
Creating a web certificate CSR file.
The process of buying an SSL certificate for a web site is usually as follows: – You create a secret key and CSR files using the method showm in this post. – You cut and paste the content of the CSR file into a field in a SSL Vendor web site – The SSL vendor …
Groupoffice: No modules available
Problem: Once in a while right after I logged in Group Office I get the error message: No modules available. Here is a URI that refreshes the cache: https://my.groupoffice.com/groupoffice/index.php?r=maintenance/upgrade