SIEVE Language for Mail Filtering Quick Guide

SIEVE is a language created and used for mail filtering that broadens the filtering options generally provided by mail servers or Antispam/Antivirus applications. They work basically by comparing different keys using different comparators and comparison methods, against headers of a mail message. Based on the result of the comparison, you can apply different actions to the corresponding mail message, i.e. reject, discard, redirect, etc.

Install Slackware 11.0 in a VMware ESX Server 2.5.x VM

This guide will help you install Slackware in a safe VMware virtual environment, with its own unique quirks to take care off. Slackware is not officially supported on VMware, but it can be installed without too many problems, once you got past choosing 'scsi.s' and '/dev/sda', in the beginning and remember to install lilo on the MBR.

Install VMware Tools

1. Prepare for VMware Tools install

# cd /etc/rc.d

# for V in {0,1,2,3,4,5,6}; do ln -s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc${V}.d; done

Though it looks really complicated all it does is really this

#ln –s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc0.d
#ln –s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc1.d
#ln –s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc2.d
#ln –s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
#ln –s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc4.d
#ln –s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
#ln –s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc6.d

2. Install VMware tools

Now moving on to the actual install of the VMware tools