Archive for the ‘email’ Category

Check the validity of your ssl certificates

Posted: 27th May 2010 by BritishSongWriter in apache, bash, cyrus, dovecot, postfix

With this command you can check the validity period of your generated certificates (apache, postfix, dovecot, cyrus, etc ). Example: Encrypted certificate Content of the certificate decrypted:

Cyrus 2 Dovecot mail stack migration

Posted: 21st May 2010 by BritishSongWriter in cyrus, dovecot

Motto : I hate the DOTS !!! Cyrus 2 Dovecot Migration In our organization, we have an internal application using a mysql database structure. We also have some linux boxes with squid and postfix/cyrus MTA/POP-IMAP-MDA using their own databases. So, you can imagine the mess caused by these applications having separate ways to store the [...]

Force Postfix queue delivery

Posted: 19th April 2010 by Valkyrka in email, postfix

I have written two articles on how you can force email queue delivery on Qmail and Exim. The following command will attempt to deliver all the messages in the queue on a Postfix MTA : The -v switch is for verbosity and the -f switch means 'force queue delivery'.