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Use a web control panel for managing servers? 380k #Plesk admins are now supported by Lightmeter 1.6 - set it up in 3 minutes with this video guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMUfvBEiKM #Postfix #WHCP

Lightmeter 1.6 released: Web-based server control panels including #Plesk are now supported with point-and-click setup, and a welcome #walkthrough tour now onboards new users 🍎 Get it while it's hot https://lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-6-plesk-support-and-walkthrough-guide/ #Postfix #Sentora# YunoHost #Dokku

A new Release Candidate for Lightmeter 1.6 is out ⚗️ Last chance to test with your systems before the final is shortly released https://lightmeter.io/release-candidate-1-6/

Important security fixes are included in Lightmeter 1.5.1, just released, identified during an audit by #RadicallyOpenSecurity. Check what's affected and cycle passwords if necessary 🔁 Found, fixed, and released same day ⏱️ https://lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-5-1-important-security-fixes/ #NGIZero

Lightmeter 1.5 is out: now you can monitor remote #mailservers using either sockets or sync'ing! (#Logstash users: we've got you covered 😉). Also past delivery performance now gets analysed and Insights created, producing a handy digest of found issues 📜 https://lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-5-historical-insights-and-logstash-support/

Perhaps the best list so far of private #GMail alternatives: 11 options from #ReclaimTheNet including #Kolab #Runbox and #Countermail https://reclaimthenet.org/private-email-providers/ #deGoogle

How to check #SPF and #DMARC email headers in #Golang (e.g. for spam analysis systems) https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-get-spf-and-dmarc-from-email-headers-to-fight-spam

Three billion phishing emails sent each day make #DMARC critical for today's mail servers, says #ZDNet -- that's right, and thanks to an early grant from Euro-NGO #NLnet it's long been available via #OpenDMARC https://www.zdnet.com/article/three-billion-phishing-emails-are-sent-every-day-but-one-change-could-make-life-much-harder-for-scammers/

A great read by #Techradar on email's 50th anniversary: “What makes #email so relevant is the openness of its standard. It eludes the attempts of tech giants to create their own proprietary platforms that only their customers can communicate on." https://www.techradar.com/news/email-is-50-years-old-but-theres-life-in-the-old-dog-yet

Criminal email activity within South Africa increased drastically during Covid, says #Mimecast. Only 30% of SA respondents using #DMARC:

• Malware +385%
• Impersonation +75%
• Spam +46%.

https://it-online.co.za/2021/03/19/growth-in-brand-impersonation-exploitation-highlight-need-for-dmarc/

The first Release Candidate for Lightmeter 1.5.0 is ready for testing ⚗️ It includes a nice new feature which impacts the speed of first-run mail data import -- check how it performs for your network https://lightmeter.io/release-candidate-for-lightmeter-1-5-0/ #Postfix #mailserver

Welcoming new back-end engineer Nico Jean (@nicooo) to the team in our #standup this morning 🧙‍♂️ (And so old friends from @fsfe are reunited)

Popular budget euro mailserver host #OVH suffering major disruption today during to catastrophic fire https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/10/ovh_strasbourg_fire/

#UCEProtect just removed #DigitalOcean IP ranges from its level 3 #RBL blocklist 👍

Lightmeter 1.4.0 just released, introducing email notifications of high priority problems (yes finally!) with direct links to Insights, plus six tweaks and fixes #postfix #smtp #monitoring https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-1-4-0/

The #Hafnium attack on Microsoft #Exchange mailservers continues to infect 'thousands per hour', compromising them with web accessible shells which remain after security patching. US agencies ordered to mitigate https://lightmeter.io/hafnium-exchange-hack-infecting-thousands-per-hour/

We've partnered with Open Source #Groupware experts #Kopano to make self-hosting email-enabled productivity rock-solid. Check out the new Kopano-Lightmeter integration #DigitalSovereignty https://lightmeter.io/kopano-groupware-integrates-lightmeter-for-private-cloud/

Woohoo we're trending via @ForbesMagazine !

@ForbesMagazine writes about our defence stance on #OpenSource trademarks against #AWS in this just published https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2021/03/01/elastic-war-on-amazon-web-services/