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RBLs with Exim4 (debian friendly)

Posted on January 11, 2008 by admin

Denying connections based on RBLs is a snap with Exim4. Most confusion is related to ACLs and where the definition sits. The fastest way to deny based on RBL is to add it to whatever ACL you specify in acl_smtp_rcpt … Continue reading →

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Updating RedHat 9

Posted on December 17, 2007 by admin

Simply: You can’t. up2date will not run and RedHat does not provide updated packages. In 2003 RedHat switched from RedHat9 to Fedora. If you have an old RedHat box, you will have to migrate to Fedora. If it is really … Continue reading →

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Quick Character Escaping in PHP

Posted on October 10, 2007 by admin

When writing PHP web apps, I tend to run in to a portability issue when dealing with SQL connectivity. Since I can’t count on having the PEAR DB module available, I rolled my own set of functions to interact with … Continue reading →

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