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Email Migration without Downtime

By On 19 March 2012 · 5 Comments

I have been assigned a task by the big boss to do our company’s email migration without any downtime. Downtime in this case is refer to the time when MX record pointing propagates around the world to the new server. It could cause your emails to be sent to the old server, instead of the [...]

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cPanel: PHPList Subscriber Mailing List Maintenance

By On 24 November 2011 · 1 Comment

In my company, I am also responsible to handle and manage the mailing list server. We are using PHPList, a popular mailing list program to blast out mails and we use it to send our latest news, promotions, announcements and notification to our subscribers. We have a lot of subscribers, which include some of them [...]

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Linux: Email Alert on MySQL Replication Failure

By On 1 November 2011 · 15 Comments

In my environment, MySQL replication is really important because we are splitting different web servers with different database server to balance the load between MySQL servers. It quite traditional ways because this is kind of old database servers which sustain until today.

There is simple way to setup a monitoring script to alert us via [...]

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System Administration: Managing Remote Location

By On 28 September 2011 · Leave a Comment

As a system administrator which administrating many branches, I need to support the end-user environment as well. Doing this from single location is quite hard and I need to create the best environment to manage all of these stuffs efficiently.

I am listing out some tips or what we can do to improve communication and [...]

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Setup Mail Gateway/Forwarding using Postfix

By On 1 August 2011 · 2 Comments

I will show you on how to setup a mail forwarding run in Postfix, which is my MX record will be the email gateway and this server will forward all emails to my mail server which run under cPanel.

What we really need is an MTA (mail transfer agent), application which route your email here [...]

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Spam, Spammer, Spambots = Money

By On 25 July 2011 · Leave a Comment

Spams, spammers and spambots are exist for only one purpose, money.

1. Spam is email that is sent to other people without being requested. Why they want to disturb our life? Because this is one way of advertising.

2. Spammer will mostly send you something that you don’t know and don’t want to know, and [...]

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How to Increase Email Reliability

By On 12 July 2011 · Leave a Comment

Have you encountered valid email being delivered to your Junk/Bulk/Spam? Why is this happened since you are not a spammer? How to make sure my email going through to the Inbox?

We called this as false-positive. False positives are innocent emails that get mistakenly identified as spams. [...]

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