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Mail disorder – (questions) – part 2

I got a little further with the checkpw package which specifically looks for passwords in the ~/Maildir/.password file. So I know this works. I also know that I can Telnet to port 143 of the mailserver (don’t try it, it’s disabled), but usefully “update-inetd –enable telnet” is a useful command line trick which can be [...]

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Wed, April 26 2006 » Linux setup » No Comments

Mail disorder – (questions)

After some painful and frustrating moments it’s time to admit that despite having spent a long time trying to get things working, qmail and subsequently Squirrelmail have failed me. Qmail on POP3, squirrelmail on the basic login part (111 error message)
I have tested the setup, installed checkpassword, bincimap and tried all the telnet stuff to [...]

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Tue, April 25 2006 » Linux setup » No Comments

Host names when linking from Webalizer stats

Further to the entry on Custom Host names in Webalizer stats ie the title at the top of the page that says for example Usage Statistics for www.faq-it.co.uk, this also also affects any page links listed from within the stats. So for example if your host was subdomain.domain.com, but in Webalizer you only referred to [...]

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Sun, April 9 2006 » Apache » No Comments

Slapping iPod fixes noisy drive that doesn’t play

My iPod stopped working last Wednesday for reasons unknown, during a song it stopped. During the next minute or two I tried to move on a song, back a song, etc, with no joy. After resetting it using Menu/Select, then following www.apple.com/support/ipod and the more worrying iPod displays a sad iPod icon link I left [...]

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Tue, April 4 2006 » Mac'n'stuff » No Comments