BrianJarrett.com

Getting Spam Assassin Working with Procmail and Postfix on a Fedora Core 5 Server

I bought brianjarrett.com in 2003, set up e-mail there, then kept it spam-free for three years. Then, it came. It was slow at first, only fifty messages a week maybe. It wasn’t long until it turned into fifty or a hundred a day; hundreds and hundreds by the end of any given week. On the client side Thunderbird did an okay job with it and Outlook 2007 did a better job with it but it was still a major pain in the ass, sitting there and waiting while Outlook churned through message after message promising pre-approved loans, penis enlargement, cheap Viagra, mini-RC cars, and messages about how some girl starting dating this guy but his “member” was too large for her mouth and she practically choked.

Now as sorry as I felt for this girl I just couldn’t stand the e-mails anymore. I thought about changing my e-mail address once again …read more »

Finally I was able to upgrade my site to Wordpress 2.3 . Initially it broke during the process and I had to restore everything then try again when I had more time. Turns out the BlogStats plugin didn’t work and I had what appears to be a deprecated category function call in my theme (wp_list_cats).

One of the more interesting things with this upgrade is tags. Tags, at least how I’ve implemented them, are sort of like micro categories. I like to think of categories as macro and tags as micro. For instance …read more »