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Posted May 28 at 12:17 CDT by Remi in Django, Drupal, Email, General, Memory, Plone, Python, Software, WordPress, Zope  - 8 comment(s)

Here is a quick update on what's been happening lately at WebFaction:

• New Webmail interface: Squirrelmail served us well for all these years but it was time for something a little more modern. We've setup a new webmail interface (AtMail) at https://atmail.webfaction.com and we'll make it the default at https://webmail.webfaction.com in the near future (we'll still keep Squirrelmail at https://squirrelmail.webfaction.com for people who want to keep using it).
  
  
• New backup system: In the last few weeks we've rolled out a new backup system on all of our CentOS servers. The new system is a lot faster and lighter on the server and as a result the load on the server isn't impacted when it's being backed up.
  
  
• Mail platform improvements: We keep improving our mail platform and we now have better spam detection than ever and we're able to enable new servers within seconds if mail traffic increases.
  
  
• New installers: We regularly add new software or new versions to our one click installers. Lately we added the latest WordPress, Drupal, Django, Plone, Joomla and more.
  
  

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Latest improvements

Posted Jul 24 at 08:19 CDT by Remi in Django, Drupal, Email, WordPress  - 5 comment(s)

Just because we're quiet on the blog doesn't mean we're not hard at work... Here are a some improvements that we've made lately:

• Lots of new installers: WordPress-2.6, Drupal-6.3, Django-0.96.2 and others. We usually add these within hours of their release.
• New PHP setup: We're gradually rolling out a new PHP setup which fixes a security issue. Your PHP files are now run inside mod_php as your user, which means that there is no more hassle with permissions and uploaded files being owned by apache. See our status blog for details of the rollout.
• Better spam detection: We're now using a combination of SpamAssassin and some black lists to filter out the spam on our new mail platform.

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Server side mail filters

Posted Oct 24 at 09:49 CDT by Remi in Email  - 6 comment(s)

We just added a much requested feature to our control panel: the ability to specify your own server-side mail filters.

To configure your own filter rules you just need to edit your mailbox, tick the "use manual procmailrc" box and then enter your rules in the "manual procmailrc" text area.

Here is a sample .procmailrc file:

# Send mail to spamassassin
:0fw: spamassassin.lock
| /usr/bin/spamassassin

# If spam level > 8, discard e-mail
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level: ........
/dev/null

# If spam level > 5, put mail in "spam" folder
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level: .....
mail/spam

# If subject contains "WebFaction", move e-mail to "webfaction" folder
:0:
* ^Subject:.*WebFaction*
mail/webfaction

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mail2script

Posted May 9 at 09:26 CDT by Remi in Email, General  - 5 comment(s)

Five days without a new feature ... something's wrong ... Wait, here is the feature of the day, code name "mail2script":

It allows you to specify a script name as a target for an e-mail address. To do so just enter the absolute path of the script in the "targets" field. You can also put some parameters after the path.

When an e-mail is sent to the e-mail address, your script will be executed and the e-mail data will be passed on stdin.

Simple and powerful, just the way we like it :)

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Email FAQ

Updated Mar 12 at 10:15 CDT (first posted Jun 28 at 04:58 CDT) by Remi in Email, FAQ, Help  - 0 comment(s)

Moved to https://help.webfaction.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=view&parentcategoryid=3&pcid=0&nav=0

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