Written by on Feb. 10, 2009 in End-user Application Software.
Just posted up a new (and hopefully the last) build of Songbird 1.0 for the Mac PPC based upon the great feedback from the last build. Thank you one and all for helping to make this work for the community.
Songbird 1.0 for Mac PPC
md5 for the file
Leave the feedback in the comments and hopefully we can move on towards 1.1 from here.
Written by on Feb. 8, 2009 in Life.
So one of the less happy tasks of recent times has been file recovery duties.
From the age before the tech bubble burst, I've kept a couple of excite.com email accounts alive for online throwaway registrations. Take the email and resell it to spammers, because it only gets used when I need another throwaway registration.
Unfortunately about 6 months ago or so they switched their backend mail handling to myway. Ugly, overly bloated, inefficient and generally a pain in the ass to be avoided now. So I've been waiting for someone to develop a new FreePOPs lua ...
Written by on Feb. 1, 2009 in Server Application Software.
So I finally got around to doing it. After the move from UW-imap to dovecot, I noticed that dovecot supported server-side sieve filtering for email. Rather than writing filtering scripts for each email client that hits the imap server (squirrelmail, Mail.app, Mulberry, etc) to move the email caught by spamassassin, I installed the dovecot sieve and managesieve via FreeBSD's ports system and configured them as per the wiki instructions. Mulberry already handles sieve scripts, so I could manage the filters on my server via an email client app. I also installed the avelsieve plugin for squirrelmail, so I ...
