Scott Yang's Playground

Want to read Gmail from Outlook/Thunderbird/Mutt? Pop Goes to GMail runs on your Windows desktop, fetches new messages from GMail at regular interval, and then let you read them from any email readers supporting POP3 protocol.

Big thanks to invitation from Thomas, that I have finally got myself a Gmail account! I just had a brief look of it, and the interface seems to be pretty light-weight and slick, using quite a bit of XMLHttpRequest in Javascript to make it more ‘application’-like. I guess it probably also means that I would [...]

Beat this Google – 2Gb of free inbox without googlebot crawling through your emails! 10,000 sign-ups per month, but you don’t need to be an active blogger to test this out :)

Via Jeremy Zawodny, Yahoo! has announced their anti-spam technology, DomainKeys. DomainKeys is a technology proposal that can bring black and white back to this decision process by giving email providers a mechanism for verifying both the domain of each email sender and the integrity of the messages sent (i.e,. that they were not altered during [...]

According to this news (or not so new according to some of the user comments) from Slashdot, Google is now offering Gmail beta testing accounts to active Blogger users. It effectively increases the user base of beta testing significantly towards those who are technical savvy, out-spoken and influential on the Internet, which characterise the majority [...]

SpyMac apparently offers free 1 Gigabyte email service, without an April Fools day press release. I quickly signed it up, and here’s my member benefits: 1 GB e-mail account, 250 MB of space to upload pictures in the Spymac Gallery 100 MB free space on Spymac Hosting with WebDAV access Free iCal Hosting (both public [...]

One week of running Clam Anti-Virus and amavisd-new has resulted the following viruses quarantined: Virus Quantity Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 85 Worm.SomeFool.P 62 Yaha.P 6 Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2 1 Total: 154 Interesting to note that, out of all the emails that have been quarantined, 119 (or 77.3%) of them are addressing one of the FOCUS mailing lists, with potential to [...]

I have just got Postfix on my Mandrake Linux box to talk to Clam AntiVirus via amavisd-new, which also does spam filtering as well. It uses Postfix’s content filtering interface to pipe the incoming emails through another SMTP server to quarantine potential viruses. Because AMaViS also integrates with Spam Assassin, I have thus dropped my [...]

W32/Beagle.A, an email virus, has been hitting our email server recenly, from the amount of emails titled “Hi” coming into Postfix. We have emails from a friend in Singapore, but originated from the BigPond network. Emails from Korea and Hong Kong, etc – suddenly all our friends decided to come in and say “Hi” with [...]

Recently the Internode ADSL forum on Whirlpool has been stormed by people from other ISP, trying to educate its users how expensive their current plans are. At the same time, Internode has been introducing heaps of value added features like ever growing mirror server, email virus and spam filtering and free Internet radio with a [...]

Woke up this morning to check email, and found some annoying bounced mail. <xxxxxxx@campusbiblestudy.org>: host mail.campusbiblestudy.org[202.7.89.205] said: 591 No mail will be accepted. Your host is in a Black List. Please see <http://relays.osirusoft.com/> Here is another one. <xxxxxxx@idx.com.au>: host pop.idx.com.au[203.14.30.10] said: 554 Service unavailable; [150.101.196.246] blocked using inputs.relays.osirusoft.com Aarrgghh!! My mail server has been black-listed [...]

This article is meant to be a continuation from my previous attempt to integrate SpamAssassin with Courier IMAP. Quite a few people emailed me asking about receiving new emails on a shared Courier IMAP folder. In my original implementation, all the flagged spams will be delivered to a shared maildir by procmail, however Courier does [...]

Well. I am not revealling my private keys so that you can read my previous post. However, somehow I felt that I might need to put my public PGP keys somewhere on this blogsite, so that in case you need to send me encrypted emails or verify my signatures, you would be able to do [...]

Okay. This is a rant. Why emails sent in the FOCUS mailing lists have to be colourful lately? Things with big fonts, lots of sometimes-quite-disoriented colours, half-baked sentences aligned left, right and centre across the page, and words that resembles advertisement – these are sent to the FOCUS mailing lists with around 200 to 300 [...]