utilizing your core i7 with SETI at home

Dec 17, 2008 by Paul White

Now that you have your awesome new core i7 workstation ( like me ), its a shame that whenever you look at task manager you rarely see your 8 processing threads being utilized.  Well if you are one of those people that prefer your 4 cores not being hanging around the water cooler all day ( System Idle Process ). Then I have just the program for you.  Help in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI )

Reverse DNS, SPF, Grey listing, and RBL Guides

Aug 31, 2008 by Paul White

If you run a mail server having a complete understanding of these technologies and how they work very important.  I go over the details of each why they are used.

Stop Spam with Grey Listing in SmarterMail

Apr 17, 2008 by Paul White

For the longest time I had the wrong definition of what grey listing is.  Once I figured out what it really is, and implemented it on my server running SmarterMail 4.x. I saw a huge drop in spam.  If you hate spam, this might very well solve all your problems.  Read this article for information on how it works and why it works.

Dictionary attack IP list

Mar 31, 2008 by Paul White

This is a list of IPs that tried to send email to users that don't exist on one of my client's sites.  SmarterMail can be setup to reject these IPs after X failed attempts.  Feel free to add these to your blacklists.

Stop Spam in SmarterMail with RBL SBL and BL

Feb 8, 2008 by Paul White


Once you get a VPS box from HostMySite and you are running your own mail server, the first thing you will notice is how much spam is getting through.  This is because there are not advanced spam filters setup when Smartermail was installed on your VPS.  So its time to take things into your own hands.  Here is the list of RBL SBL BL servers I use to block 99% of all spam. It works so well I was able to cancel my account with postini.