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Things to do.

Interviewing at Google

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I’m sick and tired of seeing Google’s bullshit “this stuff matters” advertising as part of their latest privacy policy update (which I’ve been doing my best to ignore).

As I was complaining about it I thought I’d try and find some examples of their hypocrisy. I’m fairly sure I’ve seen articles before where people said their job for a Google interview was to process gigabytes of web logs. If you’re data-mining web logs to *spy* on people on the one hand and then telling people you’re protecting their privacy on the other hand then you’re a lying sack of shit really, aren’t you?

Anyway, I didn’t find what I was looking for in a big hurry and I don’t really have time for this, so I’m giving up on my little fact finding mission and just going back to ignoring the whole thing.

However, during my web search I found this article, My Job Interview at Google, which seems like a fairly content rich article. I’m particularly interested in the resources that the guy linked to in his post. So figured I’d swing by my blog and make a note so that when I have some free time (hey, could happen) I can go over that post and read the reference material.

Mailman 3.0 and Postfix Virtual Domains

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Read the spec for Mailman 3.0. Looks like it will be pretty good. The feature that I’m interested in, and I’m annoyed I can’t do this with my current version of Mailman, is to be able to put a link to the web archived message in the bottom of the outgoing SMTP message. I.e. so there’s a link back to that message on the web in the message itself. Would be really handy for referencing. At the moment if I want a link I have to go to the web archive for the particular list and find it.

While I was reading the Mailman 3.0 spec I noticed a link to Postfix Virtual Domain Hosting Howto. I think I might have read (at least some of) that before. But… reading that is now definitely on my TODO list.

Postfix Virtual Mailboxes and Procmail Filtering

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Am interested in getting procmail to work with my Postfix/Courier setup. Am using virtual domains/aliases/mailboxes stored in a MySQL database and a Maildir file system. Have only just begun my investigations. So far I’ve found:

SpamAssassin whitelist and blacklisting

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Today I figured out how to specify whitelist and blacklist email addresses in SpamAssassin.

At the end of /etc/spamassassin/local.cf I added two lines:

include whitelist
include blacklist

Then in the /etc/spamassassin/whitelist file I added some email specifications, e.g.:

jj5@sixsigma:~$ cat /etc/spamassassin/whitelist
# Allow email from system services, e.g. from
# logwatch@hope.progclub.net or root@charity.progclub.org
whitelist_from *@*.progclub.*
# Similarly for blackbrick:
whitelist_from *@*.blackbrick.com

The /etc/spamassassin/blacklist file exists and is ready to go, but I haven’t blacklisted anything yet:

jj5@sixsigma:~$ cat /etc/spamassassin/blacklist
# No email addresses blacklisted yet.
#blacklist_from someone@example.com

Too easy.

There’s some more information on Whitelising a user.

At some point I hope to write a script that processes my users’ maildirs and whitelists everyone they’ve emailed.