Jan-Piet Mens

An der Rechtschreibung muessen wir (na ja, die Gattin — ich kann es kaum besser) noch arbeiten, aber den Ein samel dinst den meine Tochter zuhause eingerichtet hat, brachte mich zum schmunzeln.

Care to hazard a guess as to what this sequence of numbers represents?

27.55, 33.45, 39.95, 47.95, 58.95

I'm in the process of revamping and consolidating the way I handle, store and process e-mail. Having neglected to get things done properly for quite a while now, this became an urgent task.

The MX for mens.de is hosted by my provider. From there, I pick every
thing up with getmail, sorting messages into folders automatically, etc. Within my network, I can access the whole lot with IMAP. Outgoing mail is handled with Exim of course, and generally speaking, all works to my satisfaction.

There is one thing that irked me though: I have two very important people foreign to my SOHO network who have mens.de addresses, and since that domain is handled locally, I had to resort to work-arounds to get messages to them. I've finally got around to fixing that, a cinch with Exim.

An Exim router handles that nicely:

special_mens:
 driver = manualroute
 domains = mens.de
 local_parts = lsearch;/etc/exim/localparts-mens
 transport = ...
 route_list = * ...

The file localparts-mens contains their user names, one on each line, and the rest is magic.

The Kindergarten is visiting the Osnabrück zoo again this year, and we've offered to sponsor lunch for the children, as the Kindergarten is always a bit low on funds.

I got the shopping list this afternoon; delivery shall be on Friday morning:

• 23 baguettes


• 90 slices of cheese


• 90 slices of salami


• 5 kg grapes


• 60 bottles of apple juice


• 30 bottles of water

Sounds quite good.

... is my two front teeth.