// Archive
Category: Mail
Mail server setup, administration, and hardening: Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, and related tools.
Olefy and rspamd: scan Office macro malware in your mail
Olefy lets rspamd run oletools against Office attachments to catch VBA-macro malware. Here is how it works, where stock olefy falls over under load, and how olefied makes it survive a real mail stream.
YARA malware scanning in Rspamd: unwrap malicious mail
YARA malware scanning in Rspamd unpacks OLE, VBA, PDFs and nested attachments before detection rules inspect the dangerous bits.
DCC, Razor and Pyzor for Rspamd: One Docker Backend
Run DCC, Razor and Pyzor for rspamd from one token-authed Docker backend that never blocks the scanner and never writes your mail to disk. Here is how the shim works and why it looks the way it does.
KAM.cf in Rspamd: 3,200 SpamAssassin Rules, Native Lua, No Perl
KAM.cf is 3,200+ SpamAssassin rules. Loading it through Rspamd compat mode drags the whole Perl engine along. Here is the converter that transpiles it to native Rspamd Lua instead.
Dovecot, Post-Quantum TLS and Sieve: The BOFH Guide to a Hardened IMAP Server
A cryptographically relevant quantum computer doesn’t exist yet, and a nation-state is almost certainly recording your IMAP session anyway. That’s not paranoia,…
ViMbAdmin: The Postfix + Dovecot Mailbox Admin Panel (Modernised for PHP 8.5)
Your mailbox table deserves better than raw SQL at 02:00. ViMbAdmin — modernised for PHP 8.5 — manages Postfix + Dovecot virtual domains, mailboxes and aliases via web UI or JSON-RPC API, with TOTP, brute-force protection and a hardened Docker image.
Postfix 3.11: Post-Quantum TLS, TLSRPT, Milters and the Modern MTA Stack
In May 1998, Wietse Venema released the first public alpha of a mailer he’d been writing inside IBM Research and originally called…
Rspamd Explained: How Modern Spam Filtering Actually Works (Bayes, Neural Nets, RBLs and All the Cool Tricks)
Rspamd is the modern spam filter that runs Bayesian classifiers, neural networks, greylisting, DNS blacklists, Pyzor, Razor, OLEFY and DCC — all at once. Here is what rspamd does, how spam evolved, and why it crushes the inbox war.
Postfix + Dovecot Mail Server Setup on Debian 12 and 13 (2026 Guide)
A complete Postfix + Dovecot + Rspamd mail server on Debian 12 and 13 — with TLS, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, spam filtering, virtual mailboxes, security hardening, and a 10/10 score on mail-tester.com. No shortcuts.