For many years I’m running my own mailserver based on postfix and dovecot. To combat spam I’ve used spamassassin like everybody else back in the day but I was never quite satisfied with it. It came from a different era and as the spammers got more sophisticated and billions of people put poorly maintained and […]
This is just a quick little post for people running into the same problem and spending a lot of time to figure this out. I was setting up a new server which was built with a Supermicro X11SSL-F motherboard. I booted via IPMI and installed FreeBSD 10.3 with a ZFS Root Mirror setup. After the […]
Preface For a couple of years now, people are scared of running out of oil because when it does it means big change for almost the entire population of earth. Similar to oil, another resource will experience a massive shortage soon. At least that is what we are told. Compared to oil however it is […]
Just threw away all the installed ports on smyck.org and started from scratch and got rid of all the software jungle that grew over the years and was close to be unmaintainable. Also I wanted to make sure that _all_ the software involved was IPv6 ready. As expected setting up PHP5 was the biggest pain […]