02 August 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Amazon SES: “illegal headers” with ses-send-email.pl (followup)

TweetA few people have emailed me asking me to integrate the perl code snippet into I wrote to strip illegal headers when sending email via Amazon SES into something actually usable. I’ve done so! I haven’t really tested this beyond sending some test emails, but here it is. Use this at your own risk, I [...]

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16 May 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Amazon SES – “Illegal Header” errors

My thoughts on the “illegal header” error some people are encountering when relaying mail through postfix/SES. Plus some perl code that should help fix it.

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28 April 2011 ~ 8 Comments

Integrating Amazon Simple Email Service with postfix for SMTP smarthost relaying.

How I configured an EC2 instance to relay mail through Amazon’s SES, and some of the bumps I encountered along the way.

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01 December 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Relaying through Google Apps using Sendmail to bypass EC2 spam blockage

TweetUpdate 3 May 2011: I’ve subsequently modified our EC2 systems to relay SMTP mail through Amazon’s SES which doesn’t have the 500 messages per day limit that Google Apps does. A few months ago I moved a site into EC2. I didn’t want to move the existing IMAP server (ugh) so I moved the email [...]

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02 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Microsoft Office 2007's awful user interface

TweetOffice 2007 is pretty old by now, and I know much has been written on the move from a “normal” looking app to the “Ribbon” UI. I personally hate the change and feel Microsoft just changed the UI as a way to make the application look “different” so that people will look at it and [...]

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