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Ghost Newsletter Software Findings: Got Past the Mailgun Problem, but Got Stuck On Ugly HTML
This was going to be only a post about how I got the Ghost newsletter software to use Amazon Simple Email Service (AWS SES) instead of the built-in Mailgun support, but it turned into that plus why I can't use Ghost for the DLTJ Newsletter.
Ghost's bulk email delivery problem …
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E-mail Phishing Attempts Get Trickier: Fake bounced mail and Fake mail-from-scanner
Two phishing ((I think these would be classified as spear phishing as defined by Webopedia: "A type of phishing attack that focuses on a single user or department within an organization, addressed from someone within the company in a position of trust and requesting information such as login IDs and …
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Why I Digitally Sign My E-Mail
Most e-mail messages I send are digitally signed using a process called "Pretty Good Privacy", or PGP. In e-mail applications that don't understand PGP, this digital signature will show up either as an attachment called "PGP.sig" or as a part of the message starting with "BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE" at …
Posted onand last updated October 13, 2020· 5 minutes reading time -
A New Year, a New PGP Key
It is the start of a new year ((Some have even said it is the start of a new decade, but of course that isn't true. We won't start a new decade until 2011, just like we didn't actually start a new millennium until 2001.)), and it seems like a …
Posted onand last updated October 13, 2020· 26 minutes reading time -
HOWTO Deal With Spam as a Mailman List Owner
Dealing with SPAM e-mail is a real hassle. Dealing with SPAM e-mail as a mailing list owner is an even bigger hassle. Here are some tips for dealing with SPAM e-mail on mailing lists using the Mailman software package.
The Symptoms
Unless you are making your users as well as …
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Getting a Hyperlink of the Last Sent Message from Mail.app using Applescript
I've been a fan of Getting Things Done as a technique for managing projects, but it was only recently that I settled on OmniFocus as the "trusted system" collecting all of my next actions. One of the things I like about OmniFocus -- as a rich, Mac-only application -- is its ability …
Posted onand last updated January 15, 2018· 6 minutes reading time -
Pointless E-mail Disclaimers
I've been collecting disclaimers that appear on the bottom of e-mail messages in a draft post on DLTJ for about a year now -- every time I'd get a new one with a different twist, I'd save it anticipating the day would come that there would be enough humor here to …
Posted onand last updated August 10, 2022· 12 minutes reading time