A mail/spam filter to flag emails whose sender's domain is less than a year old.

I imagine everyone's answer will begin with "It depends". I can only give you feedback on my workflow & setup.

My dev hardware is an external SSD (USB3) running Debian. I virtualized my dev environment using qemu/kvm.

I have several old laptops with no hard drives stationed at various offices. I just plug in, boot from the SSD and off to the races.

If I need a laptop while traveling, I just pull from the old laptops pile and remove it's hard drive. Good to go.

I do have minimum specs for the hardware: 1TB Samsung SSD (be sure the cable supports TRIM!) 16GB Memory (Virtualization) nVidia graphics (hard to find those non-hybrid types) decent screen size.

In addition to normal backups of the host & VM, I do a weekly image of the VM. This helps greatly against damage/loss of the SSD.

Hope this helps

I suppose I fall into the artisanal category (postfix,dovecot,spamassassin,roundcube etc). In our case everyone runs mobile/desktop IMAP clients, web mail at least seems to be a "when all else fails" backup plan for quick emails.

I do have a specific beef with all the consolidated email providers. If one of them determines your SMTP server to be spam (false-positive), ALL of their clients now reject your email with little recourse for the admin. Just had this happen with a solution that rhymes with 365. Even their clients were clueless as to how to resolve it.

The best part is that everyone will blame the sender.

The ignorant always blame the informed - and it keeps working cause the informed can actually address the issue.

One step better is the Victorinox Swiss Army Manager Pocket Tool. Adds a bottle opener, philips driver & pen in a slightly thicker package. http://a.co/gsud2iY

Looks good! I like the SD though because it's cheaper and I'm constantly repurchasing them due to forgetting them when I go through security at airports.

If you'd like to look at an alternative commercial solution in a similar vein, we offer Directify. It's offers self-serve management through a web interface. It works with any LDAP server and works on Linux & Windows platforms: https://www.dirwiz.com/directify

Good question. If we can figure out OS X in VirtualBox we should have a good shot at getting a build for Mac working.. Stay tuned...

Just curious what it's written in?

Plain 'ol C using gcc to compile and UPX to shrink the size.

Author here.. Thanks. After re-reading the post the link was buried in the article and not that obvious..

Have you considered Open Sourcing this? I'd like to use it and I like the syntax. But I'd feel more comfortable if I could check out the source.

Seems crazy that it's not being open sourced even though they make sure to state they use open source tools on their site.

Yup, no open source, no thank you.

This is probably a dumb question, but how do I get this to work in OS X? Bash says it cannot execute binary file despite chmod +x /path/to/mailer - thanks.

Good question. If we can figure out OS X in VirtualBox we should have a good shot at getting a build for Mac working.. Stay tuned...

Wonder if he'll be able to work from home?

Can't recommend AMEX highly enough. Did the online application and got the card fedex'ed to me the next morning. Never an issue and points tie to Amazon directly. Best decision I've ever made.

Holy link bait...

Should I edit to "Ubuntu may break virtual terminals on some graphic cards" to better reflect content or leave the original title?