procmail whitelist vs. spamassassin

for the past few months i’ve had spamassassin setup to send just about everything to my “caughtspam” file expect what i had specifically whitelisted, as seen here from my spamassassin local.cf file: required_hits -100.1 report_safe 1 use_bayes 1 skip_rbl_checks 0 use_razor2 0 use_dcc 1 use_pyzor ok_languages en ok_locales en whitelist_from *sears.com whitelist_from *plaind.com ****snip my […]

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suburban warming

Clear Skies 55°F i don’t know about the whole globe, but it sure is warm here at the end of january in the suburbs. i was able to get rid of the last of the fall leaves, (nine bags worth), wash the cars (inside and out), and even take a walk with the kids.

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long arguments

we get a lot of spam at work, and it tends to fill up the mqueue folder on the spam assassin server with bogus returns, to the point where i have to go in and rm a bunch of the older messages to get the server to calm down. but rm can only handle a

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vagaries of nagios

nagios is a great open source service/server monitor, i’ve been using it for a very long time. one thing i noticed, however, as you update the various config files, if you make a mistake and try to start nagios again it will report this error: [root@ethereal nagios]# ./nagios.initscript start Starting network monitor: nagios No lock

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oranges

wow, i am tired, the final field goal in the third overtime was at 1 in the morning, but it was worth it! PSU: 26 FSU: 23. what a roller coaster. i think this game will go down as the best college bowl game this year (especially if you like defense); i suspect tonight’s game

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festivus

it has come and gone for another year. it was a standard affair as far as holidays go, with the regular travel schedule south on christmas day and then back home the day after. the only excitement was the boy getting sick christmas night, he said his ear hurt and he had a stuffed up

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green dragon

i discovered this amusing game while looking for something completely unrelated: Legend of the Green Dragon which reminded me of a old BBS door game and sure enough i found: Legend of the Green Dragon is a remake of and homage to the classic BBS Door game, Legend of the Red Dragon (aka LoRD) by

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