Tag Archives: unix

ping and traceroute Unable to Resolve Hostnames While Other Programs Work Fine

Posted on August 29, 2020 by joe

I was chatting with a fellow OpenBSD user on IRC. He was having some very strange problems with name resolution on his OpenBSD machine. Name resolution as his non-root user worked fine with host or nslookup. Most programs would work … Continue reading →

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Build Alpine 2.23 on OpenBSD to Fix Hang When Sending Mail

Posted on August 25, 2020 by joe

Once again, I love the Alpine MUA. Simple and robust, it just works, and is much faster than a GUI mail client. During a recent OpenBSD install (6.7) I ran into a issue where Alpine 2.21 from Ports (alpine-2.21p4) hangs … Continue reading →

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A Journey with the Alpine Mail User Agent (MUA) in OpenBSD or How To Safely Fix: [Folder vulnerable – directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection]

Posted on August 24, 2020 by joe

Let me start by saying how much I love the Alpine mail client. It’s fast and easy. I can hit the “d” key ten times and delete as many messages in the amount of time I can click on one … Continue reading →

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Fix T_SPF_HELO_PERMERROR in Spamassassin

Posted on August 23, 2020 by joe

So I thought I had my spf (Sender Policy Framework) records setup correctly. They all passed the various test sites. Nevertheless I kept seeing this one error in my spamassassin produced headers: I was unable to find a lot of … Continue reading →

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