Diary: May 2004

Wow

Today was a momentous day. Today was a day that will be remembered through the ages. Today was a day that wrinkly old people will recount to their grandchildren on a cold winter evening, who will be thrilled and excited, and beg for the story to be told again on subsequent visits.

For today was the day that I broke 1000 spams.

Yes, that is right, today I received exactly 1001 spams. I would like to thank all of the people who have helped me get where I am today; my manager, my sweet lord and saviour Buddy Christ, and ...

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I Love E-mails!

This morning, I got round to setting up a centralised mail server, which collects my e-mail and lets me access it from any machine, anywhere. It works like this; fetchmail picks up my e-mail, exim sorts it into folders, and courier makes it available via IMAP (with SSL). It was pretty easy, although I spent a few hours writing a web-based exim .forward editor so I can edit my filter rules and add mailboxes a lot more easily. And at some point, I'll implement some whitelist and blacklist filtering, which should help with my spam problem - for those who ...

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