Category Archives: E-mail

DSPAM with VExim and folder-based training using Courier IMAP

By Alastair | December 28, 2006

Spam is getting worse, so I’m trying out DSPAM. I’ve added it into my vexim set-up and although it’s early days, things are looking promising.
I run various accounts with IMAP/POP3. For the POP3 users, there are training aliases to forward incorrectly-classified mail to. For IMAP users, it would be much more convenient to have DSPAM [...]

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More on boilerplate and IoC

By Alastair | December 6, 2006

Java has lately been seriously annoying me in this regard. Why do I have to write getters/setters for beans? Why can’t we just have a property keyword instead that does it automatically? Why does everyone insist on using getters/setters in the first place rather than public fields anyway? What’s the point? Ah, yes, we need [...]

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