Monday, December 16, 2013

Five best practices to improve your email delivery success rate

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In the modern day world of email delivery, recipient ISPs place great amount of emphasis on verifying the legitimacy of senders email to their customers. By Linda Musthaler, Principal Analyst with Essential Solutions Corp. I recently helped a client conduct a marketing campaign via email. This company sent an email message to more than 2,400 people and had a dismal response rate of 14 people....

Postfix queue file corrupted

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Today, my Fedora based mail server crashed. It is has a small (160G) drive for the base file system and a RAID 5 (4x500G) for storage. Unfortunately yesterday I found that the hard drive holding the base system started to crash. Fortunately I had a copy of that drive made couple of weeks ago using dd command. After a few fixes like a httpd conf, and some symbolic links everything started to work...