A slight misconfiguration had SpamAssassin dropping spam into ~/Maildir/.spam/ while Dovecot was looking for mbox files in ~/mail/. From my initial bit of Googling, I was expecting to have to download some program to do the heavy lifting. Luckily, I came across a very simple blog post with a very simple answer that worked like [...]
Of all the various services that I use/host online, I consider email to be, by far, the most critical. It’s been over 11 years since I registered my first domain name so as to have a permanent email address regardless of changes in educational institution or employer. I’ve gone through a variety of email setups [...]
A while back, I’d looked at a couple of plugins to automate the announcing of new blog posts on Twitter, but hadn’t really found one that I liked. Today, I found myself playing with really short (one-character) IDNs, which led to thinking about URL shortening, which led to YOURLS, which led back to WordPress and [...]
Seeing the announcement of Chrome 3 on Ars Technica reminded me of my desire for Chrome on the Mac. I’m not unhappy with Firefox, especially with the processor-specific-optimization builds, but it’s still slow and it just gets slower the longer I keep it open, constantly churning the CPU doing something and occasionally pausing for no [...]
This is not likely to be of interest to many people, but for anyone who used uJournal (uJ) or AboutMyLife (AML), which absorbed uJ after its demise, it is worth knowing that there has been a temporary site up at http://aboutmylife.net/tempsite/ at which one can get a very bare dump of their entire journal. For [...]