Sometime a month or two ago, sending email to my family stopped working. My emails vanished into the void and were never heard from again.
I figured my SMTP was set up incorrectly so no big deal, I used another (gmail etc.). Recently I got around to looking in my logs and […]

I own my own domain (or five) and one of the good things about that is having nearly infinitely many email accounts if you want them. So I tend to make up a new account for every site I register at. This leads to amusing things like getting an email from a marketing […]

Spamassassin on my mail server stopped working today. You don’t realize just how much work a spam filter saves you until it stops working. I’ve probably gotten 50 spam emails since this morning.
I’ve been using Thunderbird in Linux for a while, and it works surprisingly well nowadays. I remember being […]

I’ve blabbered on quite a bit about finding a good webmail client since I ditched Gmail. I am enjoying being free of ads and knowing my email is not being stored / used / read by some corporation. Well, except potentially by the company that hosts my website. And by my ISP. […]

After two years of using Gmail, I have exactly 5,531 emails. These are all sitting on some server who knows where, and getting them all off of there and onto my own server was an interesting task.
It turned out to be pretty easy thanks to Thunderbird. If you enable POP in Gmail, you […]

My host comes with Squirrelmail and Horde, and I dislike them both. Squirrelmail is too bare-bones for me. It’s hideous to look at. And Horde is too over-the-top and slow for me. It takes about 17 clicks to get to the inbox once you log in. No call for that.
Really, […]

Email is such a fragile thing. It’s nerve-wracking setting up an email server properly. If you set it up wrong, emails disappear into a black hole and it’s sometimes not readily obvious that there’s even a problem, especially if the emails don’t even bounce. Same goes with setting up a procmail filter, […]