sendmail or sending mail

2013-04-19 1 min read Fedora Linux
If you want to use sendmail so that you can send all your mails from the local system to your email address, then you have to use sendmail. Now, configuring sendmail has never been that easy and if you are working internally on your corporate network then for sending mails to the same domain, generally you don’t have to login. That being the case, you can use something simpler like “sstmp“. Continue reading

importing outlook pst files in evolution in Fedora 13 ( Goddard)

2010-07-25 1 min read Fedora Linux
If you were using outlook and moved to some other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client" title="Email client" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client">mail client then you know the pain of moving the mails from outlook mail from outlook to any other client. If you are using evolution on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora, then you are in luck. Just install the plug-in and select the file to import as simple as that. sudo yum install evolution-pst Continue reading

email with templates (with variables) from the command line with sendmail or any other MTA.

2010-06-09 2 min read bash Fedora Linux
I was trying to get templates to work on evolution and found that although templates are there in evolution mail client, its not that efficient to use. What I thus wanted was to have something that could allow me to send mails to (and cc and bcc) to specified people with predefined template, only some values changed, like changelog and so on. So I wrote a set of files and below files to achieve the same. Continue reading

Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

2010-05-27 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized
If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down). #!/bin/bash – #=============================================================================== # FILE: checklinks.sh # USAGE: ./checklinks.sh # DESCRIPTION: Check if the links exists on affiliate sites # OPTIONS: — # REQUIREMENTS: — Continue reading

swaks – Swiff army nife for SMTP

2010-03-09 3 min read Fedora Learning Linux
If you are having issues with the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/simple_mail_transfer_protocol" title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol">SMTP Server, then sometimes you just wish you had a swiss army knife to test the same and then you would not have to spend your precious time on some silly mistake that you may have made. Your wish is now fulfilled. <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/military_of_switzerland" title="Military of Switzerland" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Switzerland">Swiss Army Knife SMTP: A <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/command_line_interface" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading

Get a lot of spam — use spamassasin.

2010-01-19 1 min read Fedora Linux
If you get a lot of spam into your local inbox and do not want your service provider to filter them for you, like me :), then you can use spamassasin. The benefit with this approach is that all the spam will be delivered to your local inbox and you do not need to do anything on the server. You can blacklist, whitelist, report message as spam all on your client and it would not change anything on the server. Continue reading
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