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 [...]

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 12:42 | 0 comments
Categories: DomiNotes, Exim, Mail
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Some people still believe…

Repeat after me: Message Recall doesn't work.

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 08:45 | 0 comments
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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 [...]

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 22:38 | 0 comments
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(via @u235.)

Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 18:18 | 0 comments
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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 [...]

Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 17:13 | 0 comments
Categories: IMAP, Mail

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 [...]

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at 10:56 | 2 comments
Categories: Entertainement, Mail
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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 [...]

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 19:22 | 0 comments
Categories: Exim, LDAP, Mail
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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 [...]

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 20:49 | 0 comments
Categories: CLI, IMAP, Linux, MacOSX, Mail, Mobile
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