I work with email and Postfix. On every mailing machine I have Postfix setup on, I have at least 2 instances, sometimes more (in fact, sometimes its as many as 6 instances). I was recently setting up a new set of mailers and decided to give Postfix multi-instance seutp a try. It was excellent. There really isn’t too many complex setups that have a simple installation. And to that end, I give Postfix credit where credit is due. It usually takes a little more than just following the README.
Read the rest of this entry »
Erics Tech Blog Thoughts, musings, and other idealistic (sometimes useful) systems and development hoopla.
A Few Words About Setting Up Postfix Multi Instance
12 Apr 2010 — ericList of Feedback Loops
15 Jan 2010 — ericThis is the most comprehensive list of feedback loops that I have been able to find and put together. If there are others that you know of, please let me know and I’ll add them.
The other item that should be noted is that some ISPs don’t have a feedback loop and just respond to the abuse@ or postmaster@ email addresses for a domain. In addition to the feedback loop setup, ensure you have those addresses as valid addresses for your domain.
For more information on Feedback loops and how they help your deliverability, see the Wikipedia entry on Feedback Loops.
Read the rest of this entry »
Transferring Email From Gmail/Google Apps to Dovecot With Larch
9 Dec 2009 — ericAs regular readers of this blog know, I am in the process of trying to back up Google Apps accounts to Dovecot. Well I have finally found my solution. Not only does it work, but its in Ruby.
First thing that you’ll need to do is grab yourself a copy of Larch. I did this simply by typing and it installed everything nicely, but click the link to the repository on Github if it doesn’t work for you.
Read the rest of this entry »
Backing Up Gmail/Google Apps to a Dovecot Server
3 Dec 2009 — ericI have been trying to find a way to copy everything from a Gmail account to a Dovecot mail server. The way I have ended up doing it so far is simply by using Apple Mail (if you regularly read this blog, you’d know that I use a Mac). The steps are as follows:
- Create 2 accounts in Apple Mail: Gmail and the Dovecot account
- Sync the Gmail account to your local computer
- Copy everything to the Dovecot server
This works, but I have to use a slow connection (my home connection) and I have a lot of accounts to do this for, so I would much prefer to script this. The problem is that I have been trying to get this to work with either imapsync or imapcopy. Neither seem to work properly.
Read the rest of this entry »
