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How does the email system work? SMTP, POP, IMAP explained

Modified Wednesday 05-03 02:02

This page gives you the foundations of the email system. At the end, you should be able to understand why when you configure your email client, you need to set up: The SMTP configuration And the pop or imap configuration If you want to deliver...

What is an SMTP reception?

Modified Wednesday 05-03 01:52

SMTP has two sides, sending and receiving, this article is all about how to receive

What is a Email mail delivery agent (MDA | LDA)?

Modified Wednesday 05-03 01:49

A mail delivery agent (MDA) is a local process that is responsible for the local delivery (reception) of e-mail messages to a mailbox It's also known as: message delivery agent (MDA) local delivery agent (LDA) An MDA gets normally the messages...

What is a Mail eXchange (or MX)?

Modified Wednesday 05-03 01:47

A Mail eXchange (MX) is a smtp server that is responsible for : receiving emails for one or more domain and delivering them to a mail delivery agent (MDA) for final delivery The email servers IP are set in the DNS via the MX record. This is how...

Map Of Internet 1973
What is a MX DNS record (Mail Exchanger Record)?

Modified Wednesday 05-03 01:45

The MX DNS is a DNS record that defines the mail eXchange server. You can only use one mail exchange server at a time for a specific domain name (ie domain or subdomain). The name of the MX record is the last part of an email address and designates...

What is DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication)?

Modified Wednesday 05-03 11:57

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is a text DNS Record that indicates to the receiving server what actions should be taken if the emails do not pass the email authentication mechanisms: * DomainKeys Identified Mail...

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What is the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) in Email?

Modified Wednesday 05-03 11:13

The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a framework that determines if the sender of a email transaction is valid. It's part of the email authentication framework with DKIM where the goal is to: prevent email spoofing and reduce unsollicited emails...

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What is DKIM, the Email DomainKeys Identified Mail? (Mail Signatures)

Modified Wednesday 05-03 11:03

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method to sign digitally outgoing email, in order to authenticate a person, role, or organization allowing them to claim some responsibility for the message. The signature associates: * a domain name * to...


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What is a Mail eXchange (or MX)?

Created Wednesday 05-03 01:45

A Mail eXchange (MX) is a smtp server that is responsible for : receiving emails for one or more domain and delivering them to a mail delivery agent (MDA) for final delivery The email servers IP are set in the DNS via the MX record. This is how...

Compiler
Compiler - Evaluate

Created Monday 03-02 00:22

To evaluate means to: transform an expression into a value according to the language rules

X.509 Public Key Infrastructure / Hierarchical PKI

Created Monday 03-02 09:04

The X.509 Public Key Infrastructure is a Public key infrastructure (PKI) that uses a hierarchical system of Certificate authorities that brings trust to the transactions by signing certificate. A Hierarchical PKI consists of: A certificate authority...

Card Puncher Data Processing
CoreUtils

Created Friday 01-11 01:48

Corutils is a package of essential executable command line client (used greatly in shell script) See also Utils Linux Name Description arch Print machine hardware name. b2sum Print or check BLAKE2 digests....

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NeoVIM VI editor

Created Friday 11-10 08:38

NeoVIM is the latest VI editors in the series that enhanced VIM Installation Once installed the NeoVim editor is called via the nvim executable.

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Ansible - Action Plugin Module Type

Created Friday 30-08 10:11

An Action Plugin is a type of module that: set up some values on the controller, (ie create a start state) then invoke an other module on the managed node that does something with these values.

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Ansible - Ad-hoc command

Created Friday 30-08 10:11

Adhoc command are command executed as in the shell via ansible. You can therefore execute command on a whole cluster of server. This is because the default module of the ansible command line is command We define the servers in a ini inventory...

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Ansible - ansible-playbook cli

Created Friday 30-08 10:11

You may get this problem when one of your file that defines ansible property has no content (ie is empty)


Data all the way

Always keep one hand firmly on data, Amos liked to say.

Data is what set psychology apart from philosophy, and physics from metaphysics.

Amos Tversky (The undoing project)
Data Warehouse Subsystem

Data Warehouse Subsystems

Developing a data warehouse means assembling a lot of subsystems in order to create a whole and coherent data application.

Discovers the 34 Kimball Subsystems and drill down to discover them

Data Warehouse Subsystems

Card Puncher Data Processing

Data Processing

Data processing has changed a lot since 1940 :) and luckily, we are not using punch card anymore.

Stream processing is becoming the norm in data integration task while batch processing stays the king in data analysis.

Data Processing

ENIAC, 1946

The first fully electronic digital computer

Eniac 1946

Table Recursion Rectangle

Data Modeling

Data Modeling is the translation of process into the world of data. The process is tricky but not insurmountable.

Data Modeling

Snowflake
Dimensional Data Modeling

Dimensional Data Modeling permits you to model a (hyper)cube and analyse a process through different perspective. You define dimensions, measures and metrics.

Dimensional Data Modeling

Most programs process some input to produce some output; that’s pretty much the definition of computing.

Function Home

Function

A Function is the basic block of all reusable code component. It is also becoming the central component of any serverless architecture.

Function

Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.

Computing Division at the Department of the Treasury, mid 1920s

Computing Division At The Dept Of The Treasur 1920

Remington Rand Univac

Medieval Counting Table

Table / Relation

The table format (known also as a relation) is the most important data structure used in data analysis. Did you know that its name originate from the medieval counting table ?

Table

Education isn't something you can finish.

Richard Feynman
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