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Controlling backscatter spam in Mailman

Posted on January 30, 2010 by bill

By default, Mailman — which is installed by default in Virtualmin as your mailing list manager, exhibits some nasty behavior, being open to sending “backscatter” spam.  This means that the Bad Guys send fraudulent messages “from” the email address they … Continue reading →

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Virtualmin on a Debian Linode

Posted on August 20, 2009 by bill

See also my comments of installation of Virtualmin on a  Centos linode… these are just the additional issues. GD under PHP not installed by default WordPress and other PHP systems were reporting errors about “imagecreatefromjpeg not defined” … that’s a … Continue reading →

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Setting up Virtualmin on Centos with a Linode

Posted on March 23, 2009 by bill

Once you know these few steps, setting up a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl-PHP) server on a Linode (please use that link, as it includes my referral code) is insanely simple: First, starting with a freshly provisioned CentOS install, ssh into the root … Continue reading →

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