Posts under category 'email'
Setting up cPanel to use AWS SES to send emails
If you host your own cPanel server, you may have discovered that the IP address you were given on the VM is no good for sending email. Some RBL has the IP blocked from the previous owner spamming or doing malicious things with it. This little tutorial will walk you through how to configure cPanel to use AWS SES for sending emails.
Debugging MailScanner: cleaning messages
Last week I did a short post on testing MailScanner to be sure it was scanning properly. An alert reader pointed out that I missed the easy solution, which was to simply use ‘MailScanner –lint’ to check if MailScanner was running properly. Since I wrote that article, I found that my MailScanner was again hogging the CPU. Last time it was an issue with f-prot interaction, this time it is a problem apparently with MailScanner. Here is what I did to debug this issue, and here is the post that helped me learn more about MailScanner.
Email status messages - what do they mean
With one of my clients I need to monitor email bounces from our mailing lists. Normally this goes relatively smoothly, as either the email goes through, or it bounces back with a 550 Recipient not found message. Sometimes the messages I get back are less familiar to me. Here is the appendix from RFC1893.