18 Jan 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:36 pm
So I wanted to do some programming in python whilst at work I could have used my netbook but its size can make it difficult to work on for serious code generation. So my decision was to use Portable Apps from a USB memory stick, Portable Apps does not include Python in its package listing. [...]
03 Jan 2010
Posted by Quantum at 2:38 am
Well its now 2010, Happy New Year!!!, and my mailserver guide is still not on the site. It has not been forgotten and in fact part of the guide is already hidden away under going editing. One of the issues that was delaying progress was finding the best way to display code on the site. [...]
18 Dec 2009
Posted by Quantum at 11:15 pm
I recently upgraded from Mozilla Thunderbird 2 to the new Thunderbird 3 release. For a few days everything was working fine with the new default settings. I have a few email accounts which Thunderbird fetches mail for and I didn’t want to use the new Smart Folder mode. So I changed back to not using [...]
30 Nov 2009
Posted by Quantum at 9:43 am
As usual it has taken me until the end of the month to get round to posting something. Normally this is just an update of the mail server saga or something about a site update. Not wanting to miss out such information that will follow. More interesting news is that I am changing my job, [...]
31 Oct 2009
Posted by Quantum at 10:28 pm
The mailserver project which I have been working on for many months now is getting to the point where it will soon be taking over the role of hosting all my email. No problems have been discovered over the past month and my upgrade script to regenerate the security certificates worked perfectly. A recent update [...]
07 Sep 2009
Posted by Quantum at 10:30 pm
Over the past couple of weeks I have been moving the mailserver project closer to being ready for actual use and another milestone has been passed. I have now reached the stage where my hotmail and gmail accounts are collected onto the server and made availiable via IMAP. This has not been without problems, I [...]
17 Aug 2009
Posted by Quantum at 4:06 pm
It has been a long time since I last updated the kernels on my linux machines. I had managed to keep the software up to date but the kernel upgrades are always a little more involved. Today is the day that they were all updated, all the software updated and rebuilt. Optimising the kernels is [...]
08 Jun 2009
Posted by Quantum at 11:36 pm
I have at long last done a little more work on the mailserver project. The latest thing to report is the addition of dspam to filter out spam. In addition to this clamAV is also integrated. The next step will be to do some more testing and then plug in another application which should make [...]
13 Mar 2009
Posted by Quantum at 12:51 am
After spending much time and effort on the mailserver project I think I have finally created a secure and working basic setup. It’s currently a little to late to do extensive testing but the brief tests carried out so far look good. A laptop with a self signed ssl certificate can securely connect to the [...]
03 Mar 2009
Posted by Quantum at 10:24 pm
I was hoping to begin this month with news that my mailserver project was reaching the milestone objective of being secure and working, alas it is not to be. The good news is that over the past month I have made significant progress and am in the final stages of securing and testing. I have [...]
