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Using Thunderbird and Zimbra together with tags

Yazan: dp | 03 June 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Software

If you’re trying to use Thunderbird to tag messages, you might notice in Zimbra‘s webmail that the tags are called $label1, $label2, etc. The way to make these “right” is to edit the prefs.js file. Rename the $label1, $label2 values to “important”, “work”, etc. Make sure they start with a lowercase letter, else they won’t [...]

The end of external

Yazan: dp | 09 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Servers

external is the box that, for the past 1836 days, hosted everything dp.cx related. This included mail, web, ftp, ssh, ntp, bittorrent, dns, irc, silc, svn, git, mysql, postgresql, and many others. Not too bad for a Celeron 2.0GHz. This last uptime beat the old record: # Uptime | System Boot up —————————-+————————————————— -> 1 [...]

Postfix + fail2ban = win

Yazan: dp | 29 July 2009 | 5 Comments
Categories: Servers

Recently, I had to lease a new server. My old one was ok, but it was 5 years old, and showing it’s age. The most recent bout of problems was due to postfix, and a specific domain that I host mail for. I had previously set up Policyd in an attempt to stop the influx [...]

Light IM Client

Yazan: dp | 12 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Software

If you’re on Linux, and looking for an IM client that’s lighter than Pidgin, check out Empathy. It only uses about 23M of memory, plus about 15-20M for the background transport services. It has tabbed chat windows, notifications (via Gnome Notification), etc. It’s also one of the only clients that supports Voice Chat through Google [...]

Claws Mail Auto Preview of Messages

Yazan: dp | 12 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Software

To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected to Always. Done! To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected [...]