Robert Norris

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bio website eatenbyagrue.org
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Short bio: I do everything!

By day I'm a mix of sysadmin and developer at Opera Software, working on [https://mail.opera.com/](My Opera Mail) and Fastmail.FM. We use Perl, Cyrus, Postfix, MySQL and Linux to make mail awesome.

By night I write games, so C++, Lua, OpenGL and everything in between. My main time sink is Pioneer, a galactic-scale space game with a realistic physics model. I suck at math and algorithms so I spend a lot of time reading papers and getting things wrong. Its fun!

If I have any time left in between all of that, I'm a dad to three girls and a husband to one lovely lady. She makes things too, so if you prefer meatspace creativity check her stuff out.


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 comment When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users?
@Howiecamp: You have to do it in the user org because that's where the users get created.
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Conspiracy theories and misinformation are not particularly useful.
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 comment When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users?
@Howiecamp: To find it I go to my user org page, "Organization Settings", "General Settings". The option is called "Automatic account creation".
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 answered Why is GMail showing the wrong date/time for my messages?
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 comment When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users?
@Howiecamp: SmartCreate will create full users accounts eventually, so you'll get quarantines, message center, per-user settings, etc. The users just don't get an account until a few messages have arrived for them.
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 comment When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users?
@Howiecamp If you can reject mail for non-existent addresses at the border then your mail system can avoid accepting it and generating a bounce. Depending on the volume of mail your site receives that can result in a huge reduction in load. At the very least you don't have to generate and send a bounce, but you also might be able to avoid additional scanning/processing costs.
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 answered When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users?
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