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. So you control your mail, isn’t that great. What to do, start with minimal things:

Mail Server Setup With Exim, MySQL, Cyrus-Imapd, Horde Webmail

2010-01-18 1 min read Fedora

I was thinking of doing this for some time but never got time to do this. So finally I took some time off yesterday to do the setup. <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/exim-mysql-cyrus-imapd-horde-centos5.1-p2" target="_blank">Here is a good link on the instructions for the CentOS, but on Fedora also they hold good.

So what you need to do is basically install exim, imp, horde, horde-enhanced and cyrus* packages and then configure imap server and exim to do the mailing part and setup horde to view the mail. To install the packages use the command below:

View information on all the rpms installed.

2010-01-16 1 min read Fedora Linux

This post if applicable to all the distro’s which are based on rpm.

If you look at the number of rpms installed on your system, you will see it somewhere around 500-2000. Noe thats a pretty huge number. So sometimes I keep wondering what are these rpms for. Heres a command that can help you figure out what these rpms are for:

rpm -qa –info

And if you want to find info on all the files and put it in a file too:

using mypaint of linux continued.

2010-01-16 1 min read Fedora Photo

Some more screenshots here:
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GoOo released new version of Open Office.

2010-01-11 1 min read Fedora

GoOo repository for Fedora at http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/ has released the new version of GoOo packages.

Send mail to yourself and read in your favourite client and configure the rules to move to directory.

2010-01-10 2 min read Fedora Linux

By default when you send a mail using sendmail, the mail goes to the default directory. What I wanted to do was, use rss2email, to send the mails and then sort them in different folders depending on the From address.

Sendmail uses procmail to deliver mail locally. So here’s what I had to do:

Configure the rss2email to send the mail to amit@localhost

Next, configure the procmail to deliver mail to my home directory. To do this we will use the procmailrc file in the home directory. The contents of the file are :

The document editor that is revolutionary and breaking the typewriter paradigm.

2010-01-08 1 min read Fedora Linux

Today, I thought I will try something different for word processor requirements, for non-text files. For text files, vi rocks for me 🙂

So, I tried LyX, here is the description of the editor:

Description: LyX is a modern approach to writing documents which breaks with the

obsolete ”typewriter paradigm” of most other document preparation

systems. It is designed for people who want professional quality

output with a minimum of time and effort, without becoming

specialists in typesetting. The major innovation in LyX is WYSIWYM

(What You See Is What You Mean). That is, the author focuses on

content, not on the details of formatting. This allows for greater

productivity, and leaves the final typesetting to the backends

(like LaTeX) that are specifically designed for the task. With

LyX, the author can concentrate on the contents of his writing, and

let the computer take care of the rest.

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