Archive for the ‘Mail’ Category
A few days ago I noticed a large number of message delivery failures to a Domino server. They were all similar:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
j.jolie@domino.example.com
SMTP error from remote mail server [...]
Some people still believe…
Repeat after me: Message Recall doesn't work.
When I first heard of the requirement at a customer site that a rather large number of users must not receive mail on two days of the week my initial thoughts were unprintable but went along the lines of lunacy and WTF. (Meanwhile I know there are actually sound reasons, but I won't elaborate.)
The difficulty [...]
I'm exploring some of Thunderbird's new features and like some of them.
First up, when you have a threaded mail box and don't feel like expanding the thread, Thunderbird shows you a "snippet"-preview of the thread in its preview pane (seen here on the right in Vertical View layout).
Another new feature is content tabs, which enable [...]
Made me grin:
Thank you for Your message, which has been added to an automatic queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks. Since this is a lawyers' office, I have to inform You that Your credit card has been charged €5.99 for the first [...]
A request on the Exim mailing list tickled my interest: the poster wanted to have Exim expand a posixGroup to a list of the member's e-mail addresses.
As a reminder, an RFC 2307 posixGroup has a multi-valued LDAP attribute type called memberUid which is the user identifier (uid) of the member. A sample groups looks like [...]
Martin's GhettoPush, which I talked about recently is being heavily used here. So much, that I've implemented some changes, that Martin has kindly merged back into his master repository.
The two additions I submitted to the code are both very similar — almost identical. They enable us to exclude certain e-mail messages from being Prowl'ed. You [...]