PHPMailer NTLM (MS Exchange) SMTP authentication

PHPmailer does not work with NTLM authentication and insists on using mhash() which is deprecated – so you need to edit the file in /extras called ntlm_sasl_client.php Find the code that checks if mhash() is installed and replace the 3 mhashes with hash instead: || !function_exists($function = “mhash”) ) {… Continue reading

Process email bounces with PHP

This is a quick script to process email bounces, for example from a mailing list so that users can be flagged up or unsubscribed when they have too many failures. The actual bounce identification will be done by Chris Fortune’s Bounce Handler, which you can download from: http://anti-spam-man.com/php_bouncehandler/ We require… Continue reading

Monitor server cpu resources with email notification

I thought I’d write a quick script to keep an eye on which processes/users are using too many cpu cycles on my CentOS server. This checks the usage over the previous 5 minutes and emails a detailed list of cpu-hungry processes if it’s over the defined limit. Run it from cron to… Continue reading

RAID error email reporting with the 3ware 9550SXU-8L and tw_cli

This is a follow up to my previous post dmraid error reporting by email, this time for a hardware raid controller, this one is the 3ware/AMCC 9550SXU-8L. The concept is exactly the same, the only thing different is the script that checks the raid array status. We will be using… Continue reading