Kirya [.net]
Julien Valroff's weblog and personal homepage
Email management and spam fighting, testing Google Apps
Jul 14th
I have been thinking a lot lately about email management and spam fighting.
For my personal email, I use a setup based on Postfix, RBL and WL, grey listing, and DSPAM (by the way, you can find unofficial packages of current development version in my personal repository).
To better train DSPAM, I have removed all other filters (except some very basic controls at SMTP time), and I am very happy of this setup (grey listing delays receipt of email, which I am not very satisfied with, and relying on third-parties RBL is also not the best thing imho). This lead however to much more mail in my DSPAM quarantine queue.
I will hence re-enable more advanced filters at SMTP time once DSPAM bayes are large enough.
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(Almost) inactive
Jul 5th
Things have been quiet recently which explains I haven’t blogged for a long time.
I have been mostly working on keeping my unofficial dspam development packages up-to-date to allow good testing amoungst Debian users.
For those who want to upgrade from the 3.6.8 Debian package, please make sure you read and follow the instructions of the UPGRADING file: the upgrade steps are not done automatically! I let it to the official maintainers. However, I am sad to see no activity in the pkg-dspam svn repository since last September!
DSPAM 3.9.0 is now in the final testing step, 2 alpha releases have already been published, I hope we can have updated Debian packages shortly when the final version is released.
My plans for the summer are to update all my articles, most of them being unfortunately outdated, though still usable.
French income tax e-declaration
May 30th
As usual, I have chosen to use the online way of declaring my incomes for the French income tax. This year, I could declare everything without any issue using Iceweasel and Icedtea on Debian GNU/Linux amd64. However, I was unable to sign my declaration using my certificate.
I have tried installing sun-java6-plugin, which allowed me to go one step further, but I was still unable to choose the certificate with which I had to sign my declaration. Actually, it was only a display problem (the combo box was simply not displayed).
Guess what? I had to use the Windows 7 RC version I had installed in a VirtualBox to be able to sign my declaration!
I didn’t want to lose more time with this, but my girlfriend hasn’t yet made her declaration, hence any hints on how to do this on GNU/Linux would be highly apprciated.
HADOPI law finally voted by my local representative
May 12th
As expected, the French HADOPI law was voted earlier today by the Assemblée Nationale.
As expected, my local representative voted in favour of this law.
I had however kept a secret hope that he would abstain for this vote, following to the email I have received from his assistant following to our meeting. Mr Vannson planned to take the floor during the finale discussions. He had sent me for review the text they wrote, which perfectly matched my arguments, and even referred to the law as a “Rube Goldberg machine” (“Ma conviction est que nous avons monté une usine à gaz” in the original version). This text also stated that he was netiher convinced nor satisfied by the law.
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Renewing my GnuPG keys
May 8th
Following to the recent announce of a serious possible attack against the SHA-1 digest algorithm, I have just generated new GPG keys.
My personal key 9F71D449 will hence be progressively replaced by my new key: 290D20C5
Its fingerprint is:
092F 4CB5 5F19 E006 1CFD B489 D32B 8D66 290D 20C5
The old key will continue to be valid for some time (at least until the new one get signed by a Debian Developer, in order to be included in the DM keyring), but I prefer all future correspondence to come to the new one.
Transition statement signed by both keys is available at: http://www.kirya.net/~julien/GPG-key-transition_20090508.txt
They key used for my personal package repository (FBABB737) has already been revoked and replaced by E435C74B, with the following fingerprint:
D17A A78F 7992 A07D 9D85 517C C3E1 8B20 E435 C74B
You have to make apt-key aware of this change:
wget -O - http://packages.kirya.net/Kirya.netDebianpackagesVerificationKey.asc | apt-key add -
Transition statement signed by both keys is available at: http://packages.kirya.net/GPG-key-transition_20090508.txt
Also note I have generated the key with ID 90A9E71B and got it sent to public servers by mistake. I do not own the private key hence I cannot revoke it: make sure you do not use it!
