Smtp on Evan Hoffman

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

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:39:45 +0000

A 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 make no warranty, blah blah blah. This fix requires editing ses-send-email.pl, so I’d advise making a backup copy, though I imagine you can always get a fresh version from Amazon if necessary.

Amazon SES - "Illegal Header" errors

Mon, 16 May 2011 12:37:49 +0000

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.

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

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:23:47 +0000

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

Relaying through Google Apps using Sendmail to bypass EC2 spam blockage

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:48:06 +0000

Update 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 to Google Apps. There are only about 10 mailboxes so we went with “Standard” edition (free). Once we completed the move to EC2 we discovered that emails from our webserver were bouncing due to our EC2 IP address being listed in a spam RBL. This sucked, so I looked into relaying the mail from the EC2 webserver through our Google Apps account. Fortunately this turned out to be pretty easy.

Microsoft Office 2007's awful user interface

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:48:49 +0000

Office 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 go “oooh, shiny!” and not feel as bad about being forced into another $400 upgrade of a word processor. Sure, Excel’s row limit was finally raised beyond 64k, and I’m sure there were some other tweaks, but .docx? .xlsx? Yet more file formats, ensuring most businesses will feel compelled to upgrade. If your clients are upgrading, you’re going to have to.

Microsoft Office 2007's awful user interface

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:48:49 +0000