I mentioned the server failure, I think. So now I know why the IBM
drives get called "Deathstars". I've rebuilt the server and decided to
go for IMAP this time around.

All working except Outhouse Express doesn't want to play, it seems to
insist on plain-text passwords or some weird fucked-up encryption I
don't understand.

Anyhow my thought went on the lines of "turn on plain text passwords on
the server" nah that's stupid. Ditch Outlook Express on the clients and
install Blunderbird. Yep. So that's installing and copying
addressbooks/messages at the moment.

Then I started to edit the config file to allow plain text passwords on
the server.

I woke up just before saving the config file. I'm definitely losing it
though. Is it time for my pill?

%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:

> I woke up just before saving the config file. 

All email configs are evil and suck copiously , some harder than others.

> I'm definitely losing it though. Is it time for my pill?

I just had my afternoon pill. It hasn't helped yet.
I'd likely be better not taking it, and drinking.

-- 
what a waste!

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:05 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

<snip>

If it helps, I think that you're getting old too...


-- 
Life's a piece of cake

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:05 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> If it helps, I think that you're getting old too...

Heh, I race you to the Camber. Oh hang on no better make that *away*
from the Camber. No hang on that doesn't work either.

One way makes it look like it's a race towards the prossys the other as
if one is trying to get away without paying the bill.

August West  wrote:

> %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:
> 
> > I woke up just before saving the config file. 
> 
> All email configs are evil and suck copiously , some harder than others.

The old MTA was qmail the replacement is postfix. There's really not
much to choose between them. OK one comes with too much DJB for anyone's
liking but as far as configuration goes both suck.

What I don't like is the feeling that no matter how careful one is that
one may have cocked up and created an open relay by dint of forgetting
something.

> > I'm definitely losing it though. Is it time for my pill?
> 
> I just had my afternoon pill. It hasn't helped yet.
> I'd likely be better not taking it, and drinking.

Is it time for my walk? I don't like semolina.

"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote

> Is it time for my wank?

Has the pill started to work yet?

Nine Cuts  wrote:

> "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote
> 
> > Is it time for my wank?
> 
> Has the pill started to work yet?

I've been short-changed. These blue ones are Smarties.

In uk.misc,  (Steve Firth) wrote in
<1ik6ogx.13twwn819k46xhN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>::

>What I don't like is the feeling that no matter how careful one is that
>one may have cocked up and created an open relay by dint of forgetting
>something.

I'm sure there's a site that will check it out for you....  
-- 
Marc

The best way to get over someone, is to get under someone...

Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> > > I'm definitely losing it though. Is it time for my pill?
> > 
> > I just had my afternoon pill. It hasn't helped yet.
> > I'd likely be better not taking it, and drinking.
> 
> Is it time for my walk? I don't like semolina.

I should say not, it's gritty. You've got to love tapioca, though.

-- 
^Ï^                               Sn!pe  

 <:>---[   Please do not verbally abuse the petty official.   ]---<:>

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:26:29 +0100, Marc Wilson wrote:

> In uk.misc,  (Steve Firth) wrote in
> <1ik6ogx.13twwn819k46xhN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>::
> 
>>What I don't like is the feeling that no matter how careful one is that
>>one may have cocked up and created an open relay by dint of forgetting
>>something.
> 
> I'm sure there's a site that will check it out for you....

www.checkor.com, funnily enough.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

In article <1ik6w6o.1saqxvfzlmj80N%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>, 
snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk says...
> Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm definitely losing it though. Is it time for my pill?
> > > 
> > > I just had my afternoon pill. It hasn't helped yet.
> > > I'd likely be better not taking it, and drinking.
> > 
> > Is it time for my walk? I don't like semolina.
> 
> I should say not, it's gritty. You've got to love tapioca, though.

No you haven't, it's disgusting stuff.

In uk.misc,  (Fevric J Glandules) wrote in
<ooufk.28202$E41.22642@text.news.virginmedia.com>::

>On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:26:29 +0100, Marc Wilson wrote:
>
>> In uk.misc,  (Steve Firth) wrote in
>> <1ik6ogx.13twwn819k46xhN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>::
>> 
>>>What I don't like is the feeling that no matter how careful one is that
>>>one may have cocked up and created an open relay by dint of forgetting
>>>something.
>> 
>> I'm sure there's a site that will check it out for you....
>
>www.checkor.com, funnily enough.

Wasn't the one I was failing to remember, but seems to work OK.
-- 
Marc

The best way to get over someone, is to get under someone...

On 2008-07-16, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> The old MTA was qmail the replacement is postfix. There's really not
> much to choose between them. OK one comes with too much DJB for anyone's
> liking 

Any amount of DJB is too much.

-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

On 2008-07-16, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> What I don't like is the feeling that no matter how careful one is that
> one may have cocked up and created an open relay by dint of forgetting
> something.

BTDT.

:o(


-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2008-07-16, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > What I don't like is the feeling that no matter how careful one is that
> > one may have cocked up and created an open relay by dint of forgetting
> > something.
> 
> BTDT.
> 
> :o(

Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a false
sense of security.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:30 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

<snip>

> Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a false
> sense of security.

Chess sites are much better. Or maybe backgammon.


-- 
I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to
have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the
day difficult.

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:30 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a false
> > sense of security.
> 
> Chess sites are much better. Or maybe backgammon.

I like bacon.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:43:13 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:30 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a false
>>> sense of security.
>> 
>> Chess sites are much better. Or maybe backgammon.
> 
> I like bacon.

In the noonday sun?


-- 
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.

Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:30 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
>
>
>> Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a
>> false sense of security.
>
> Chess sites are much better. Or maybe backgammon.

Strip poker gets you further.
I'm very bad at poker.

-- 
I've seen that road before

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:43:13 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
> 
> > Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:30 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
> >> 
> >> <snip>
> >> 
> >>> Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a false
> >>> sense of security.
> >> 
> >> Chess sites are much better. Or maybe backgammon.
> > 
> > I like bacon.
> 
> In the noonday sun?

Oh just about anywhere, except down my underpants.

In article , august@kororaa.com says...
> Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:30 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a
> >> false sense of security.
> >
> > Chess sites are much better. Or maybe backgammon.
> 
> Strip poker gets you further.
> I'm very bad at poker.
> 

Remind me never to play strip poker with you. I'm moderately good, but 
prefer not to lose my lunch over a poker game.

-- 
eric
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> > > I like bacon.
> > 
> > In the noonday sun?
> 
> Oh just about anywhere, except down my underpants.

But you can't beat a nice slice of pig-bum, has to be said.

-- 
^Ï^                               Sn!pe  

 <:>---[   Please do not verbally abuse the petty official.   ]---<:>

In article , 
watercress@spamcop.org says...
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:30 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Yes, that's why I'm not overkeen on "checker" sites. They give a false
> > sense of security.
> 
> Chess sites are much better. Or maybe backgammon.
> 
I played Yahtzee online yesterday, won the game. Nobody in the gamble-
on-it section at the time, though.
-- 
Snob? Were I a snob, I wouldn't be talking to you.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:05 +0100, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Steve Firth:

> I woke up just before saving the config file. I'm definitely losing it
> though. Is it time for my pill?

You think you got it bad, I cocked up a Windows XP reinstall the other
day, and the drive became F instead of C. Hence I am stuck here doing
another reinstall this morning...
-- 
http://www.munted.org.uk

Fearsome grindings.

In message , Alex 
Buell  writes
>On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:05 +0100, I waved a wand and this message
>magically appears in front of Steve Firth:
>
>> I woke up just before saving the config file. I'm definitely losing it
>> though. Is it time for my pill?
>
>You think you got it bad, I cocked up a Windows XP reinstall the other
>day, and the drive became F instead of C. Hence I am stuck here doing
>another reinstall this morning...

Control Panel/Performance and Maintenance/Admin/Computer Management/
Disc Maintenance/right button/Change Drive Letters.

Primary partition drive letter immovable, all other drives including 
logical drives can be changed around.              Joanna

JF  wrote:

> In message , Alex 
> Buell  writes
> >On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:05 +0100, I waved a wand and this message
> >magically appears in front of Steve Firth:
> >
> >> I woke up just before saving the config file. I'm definitely losing it
> >> though. Is it time for my pill?
> >
> >You think you got it bad, I cocked up a Windows XP reinstall the other
> >day, and the drive became F instead of C. Hence I am stuck here doing
> >another reinstall this morning...
> 
> Control Panel/Performance and Maintenance/Admin/Computer Management/
> Disc Maintenance/right button/Change Drive Letters.
> 
> Primary partition drive letter immovable, all other drives including 
> logical drives can be changed around.              Joanna

Joanna? Good to see you! My, how you've changed.

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 <--<::)======[   Expunge, excess punctuation!  ]======(::>-->

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:51:37 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

> JF  wrote:
> 
>> Primary partition drive letter immovable, all other drives including 
>> logical drives can be changed around.              Joanna
> 
> Joanna? Good to see you! My, how you've changed.

And does it still hurt?

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 10:06:27 +0100, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of JF:

> >You think you got it bad, I cocked up a Windows XP reinstall the
> >other day, and the drive became F instead of C. Hence I am stuck
> >here doing another reinstall this morning...
> 
> Control Panel/Performance and Maintenance/Admin/Computer Management/
> Disc Maintenance/right button/Change Drive Letters.
> 
> Primary partition drive letter immovable, all other drives including 
> logical drives can be changed around.              Joanna

You cannot change drive letters on a boot volume. And your voice
sounds a bit strange today...
-- 
http://www.munted.org.uk

Fearsome grindings.

And Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> was like:

> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:51:37 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
>
>> JF  wrote:
>> 
>>> Primary partition drive letter immovable, all other drives including 
>>> logical drives can be changed around.              Joanna
>> 
>> Joanna? Good to see you! My, how you've changed.
>
> And does it still hurt?

And will you give me hope before the morning comes?

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