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An IMAP and POP3 email server. When asking about Dovecot problems, please include relevant maillog lines and output of the following command: `doveconf -n`
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Port is a generic term that can refer to port number (software related term), and computer hardware port. Here, questions referencing this tag refer to port numbers.
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System that handles large amounts of data in an organised fashion
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TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP complements the Internet Protocol (IP), and therefore the entire suite is commonly ref…
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**Windows XP is EOL it is past time to move on**.
Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, and media cente…
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A domain controller is a server in a Microsoft Active Directory or NT4 domain that is responsible for central authentication.
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Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool. It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon
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A location or process for storing of transitory or temporary data in order to improve application or system performance.
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The process of installing software on a computer/server. Can also refer to the process of installing hardware, e.g. in a datacenter.
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A command-line interface (CLI) is a mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks.
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Software and/or protocols allowing a user to access the graphical desktop on a system from a remote computer. Common protocols are RDP from Microsoft, and RFB (used by VNC).
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FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for a variety of architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley; and is developed and maintaine…
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a device that bridges network segments, operating at the OSI link layer level.
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In computer storage, Logical Volume Management or LVM provides a method of allocating space on mass-storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes.
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HP (Hewlett-Packard) is a server and network equipment manufacturer. This is a generic tag to be used when discussing HP hardware or software with no more specific tag available - See the list in the…
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systemd is a modern replacement for the traditional Linux init. Its main features include the ability to express dependencies between services and aggressive parallelization of service startup.
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A shared resource or network share is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another computer, typically via a local area network or an enterprise Intranet, …
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YUM is an open-source command-line package-management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems.
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google-compute-engine
Google Compute Engine offers scalable and flexible virtual machine computing capabilities in the cloud.
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OpenLDAP Software is a free, open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) developed by the OpenLDAP Project. LDAP is a platform-independent protocol for querying and …
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In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain.[1]
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ZFS is a modern file system and volume manager originally developed by Sun Microsystems and licensed under the CDDL. It is a copy-on-write file system with support for large storage arrays, protection…
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Unsolicited e-mail, comments or posts, often sent out in large volumes; possibly but not necessarily commercial in nature
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Squid is a FOSS package licensed under the GNU GPL and is primarily used as a web proxy server and cache.
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A computer cluster consists of a set of loosely connected computers that work together so that in many respects they can be viewed as a single system.
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A shell is terminology for a command-line interpreter most commonly used with Unix-like operating systems, but also used to interact with GUI-based operating systems in a more granular fashion.
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Certificates are a Public Key and Identifying Information
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General purpose email routing software that supports mail transport via TCP/IP using SMTP
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The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.
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vSphere is an enterprise level virtualization solution. It acts as the cloud computing OS managing a set of VMware ESXi-based hosts.
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Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.
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Nagios is a monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
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WiFi is a layer 1 and 2 networking protocol for wireless communication between devices. It is typically used in local networks for client access, but can also be used in point-to-point network links. …
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