Category Archives: Technical
Free Webinars / online training
We are planning on holding some Webinars /online training events for VPOP3 users and partners. These will be free, but availability is limited. The initial planned dates are: Friday 29th August 3.00pm – 4.00pm – beginners (registration) Friday 12th September 3.00pm – 4.00pm – advanced usage (registration) Friday 19th September 3.00pm – 4.00pm – beginners (The above times are […]
Read More...Running VPOP3 on Wine
No, this isn’t about how to run a mail server when you’re a bit inebriated. For those who don’t know, Wine is a Windows ’emulator’ for Linux (actually Wine Is Not an Emulator, but by calling it an emulator it makes it a bit easier for people to understand). The main ‘problem’ with Wine, is […]
Read More...Advanced Backups for VPOP3
As everyone knows, backups are very important, especially with an important piece of software such as a mail server. With VPOP3 v5 and later, VPOP3 will automatically make a backup of its database every day. The database in v5 and later contains all the settings, users, messages, etc, so is essentially a full backup and […]
Read More...VPOP3 v6.3 – GeoIP access restrictions
One of the new features in VPOP3 v6.3 was the support for ‘GeoIP’ in the Access Restrictions settings. This lets you specify that only IP addresses from certain countries can access VPOP3 services. Many people use this type of restriction to prevent access from countries commonly used by attackers. In fact, the VPOP3 GeoIP facility […]
Read More...PostgreSQL replication and Bucardo
PostgreSQL streaming replication in PostgreSQL 9.0 and later is excellent if it is suitable, and it is relatively easy to set up, with several walkthroughs on the Internet. The main limitation of the streaming replication is that all the servers which are replicating have to be pretty much identical. They have to be: Same major version […]
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