Posts tagged with: email

I've been using Thunderbird 3 (I'm currently running one of the 3.1 RC builds so I can use Lightning) for quite some time now without any obvious problems. Some of the new functionality is a bit annoying, like the global search thingy that opens the results in a new tab, but otherwise it's been working well for me. I have however just become aware of a problem which most people wouldn't notice, and I certainly didn't until Oracle started enforcing the quota on my home directory: Thunderbird 3.x is a very very greedy pig when it comes to disk space. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Well, so far so good. I've been using IMAP to access my Gmail for just short of a week now and haven't hit any real problems. Things were a bit slow at first as Thunderbird built the index of the folder contents, but once done, all seems ok. The one thing that did annoy me for a while was Thunderbird wasn't checking all my Gmail folders/labels: it was only checking the Inbox. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 17 May 2007 - 25 May 2007: ZFS Auto Completion for Bash - Now you can get ZFS auto completion for Bash with this script. Promising antispam technique gets nod - Great idea, but it's biggest caveat is the fact it requires both sending and receiving mail servers to have this configured and enabled. Many companies won't be upgrading as soon as this becomes official. A Mighty Number Falls - Whilst 1024-bit RSA hasn't actually been defeated, it does give us an indication as to it's impending demise. IBM AIX 6: Previewing AIX 6 and open... Continue reading ►