Postfix (Mail Relay) - Amavisd-new - Spamassassin - ClamAV

Thanks to these great opensource softwares, one can create a reliable anti-spam and anti-virus filter server.

I plan to create a Howto or Documentation to help others implement this on their system. This includes the iptables rules that are necessary and settings for using postfix as a mail relay to another secure server.

A quick run-through:
1) Install postfix (mail server)
- no restrictions yet
- just make sure everything is working properly as a mail relay

2) Install clamav (antivirus scanner)
- independent tests can be performed

3) Install spamassassin (antispam scanner)
- this is a simple process that testing can wait for amavisd-new

4) Install amavisd-new (makes all of them work harmoniously)
- this has a lot of perl module dependencies
- after the dependencies, installation is quite simple
- configuration will take some trial and error tests to suit your needs

Hopefully by December I would have finished the howto.

Dates To Remember
I have added the “Dates To Remember” info box to remind me of important dates. I’m very poor with remembering dates that I have installed a date-reminding software in my Nokia 7650.

I thought, hey why not also put it in my website. If I don’t remember greeting them then at least my site would have greeted them.

Mesedilla Studios slows down!
Sorry for the slow down on the website for the past few days. We are experiencing bandwidth problems. Although it is a good sign that more and more people are visiting, it also means I’m reaching the bandwidth limit of the website.

I will try to find other ways of improving the speed of the website. I just hope you will still continue to visit.

Thanks again for visiting and making this website worth maintaining.

It was shown simultaneously around the world last night.

Saw the showing of this movie last night, Nov. 5, 2003 10PM at Robinsons Movieworld.
Many reviewers who saw it in advance said it wasn’t that good. I just had to see it for myself.

Bluntly, the ending was quite disappointing. I expected more. Just like all the people who watched the first showing last night, I wanted more from the movie.

There were dragging parts. I guess they just gave it a romantic tone. There was a moment in the movie that I felt I dozed off. I believed it was the “…you gave me a second chance to tell you how much I care for you…” scene.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed the other parts of the movie like the escape scene. The crashes and all. The effort of getting into Zion, killing a lot of Sentinels and getting reprimanded for it was quite ironic and funny.

I came for some action. And with that, I wasn’t disappointed. I enjoyed the Mecha Scenes. They showed that the Mechas were really heavy and just raising the arms meant giving all your strength on your arms. The Mechas needing reloading was great. It wasn’t something like a Desperado movie where Antonio Banderas never needed to reload his guns.

And although the fight scene between Neo and Agent Smith was great, I felt it came from out of this anime, Dragon Ball Z. They were flying all around hitting each other like there wasn’t any physics involved. Okay I will try to accept that since they are in a “matrix”. Still I wanted something believable. The impact craters and explosions were nicely done. I guess the acoustics of the movie house also helped. I did feel/hear every kick and punch they got.

All in all, I had fun watching the movie. I could say it was worth the wait. And Robinsons Movieworld understood that people would be more happy to get inside the theater and wait for the movie there instead of standing up in line. We did wait in line but only for a few minutes.

I hope I didn’t give too much info about the movie. You just have to watch it for yourselves.

Matrix Revolutions… worth watching and having your own dvd copy. I wish they could release the dvd as soon as possible.