Tag: Tools

Email Overload: Cleaning up old emails, is it worth it? Part 4

The next step in my on-going battle with Email Overload is to go through older email and determine whether it is worth keeping. To some this exercise would appear of little value, but I thought it would at least help me figure out what value I actually attach to email and help me better understand how to manage it. (Mar 17, 2011)

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Four free Microsoft administration tools and much more

MS admin tools, security tools, how hackers hack your website, tools your users will ask you to install on their systems, how to create hard to break passwords, ... (Jan 26, 2011)

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Email Security Grader: More security through education and community

The security battle today has two main fronts: systems and education of users. Email Security Grader hopes to promote the education of network admins on email security. (Nov 03, 2010)

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Cool Tool: IMAPCOPY

Have you ever had to migrate mailboxes from server X to server Y? Unfortunately, each type of MTA natively stores mailboxes and folders differently from other MTAs (Sep 08, 2010)

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Deep header inspection: use with caution

Some anti-spam tools will actually look at the reputation of IP addresses in each of the received headers of an email. Reputation mechanisms usually involve multiple sources, e.g., DNSBLs and Honeypot-driven reputation services. (Apr 19, 2010)

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Spamhaus releases a new spam-fighting tool

Spamhaus publicly released its new Domain Block List (DBL)1earlier this week, after beta testing it for much of last year. They claim they have had “exceptionally positive” results from the testing, and the premise is really quite interesting. (Mar 03, 2010)

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Cool Tool: WinSCP

I just wanted to share with you a very useful tool that’s been around for a while now, and it helped me solve a problem on a customer’s machine. To properly investigate, I had to extract several logs from the customer’s server on a scheduled basis and have them FTP'd here so that I could keep tabs on the server's behavior. (Feb 26, 2010)

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