Weekly Review
Week 46, 2007
This last week (mostly in the last 48 hours, actually) I accomplished the following (non-work accomplishments):
- I transitioned from bBlog to WordPress, which is simply a much more powerful (and more used, therefore more supported and more plugins) platform.
- Re-implemented my custom bBlog skin for WordPress.
- Set up Angie with her own blog
- Set up a Mail server, Mail Transfer Agent, Mail Filter and webmail:
- Dovecot Secure IMAP Server. The Debian standard setup was just what I needed.
- Postfix Mail Transfer Agent. After fiddling with Sendmail for far too long, I decided to try Postfix instead. The config run by apt-get install postfix was all I needed to get the server working exactly the way I wanted. And all that config did was ask me a single question.
- RoundCube Webmail. A kinda-nice, if somewhat feature-lacking AJAX webmail client. If they add threaded messages and the ability to edit procmail filters, I’ll be fully convinced.
- Procmail. After a bit of looking around, there were some nice example .procmailrc files included with the installation, and once I figured out the right places to point the filters at (/var/mail/pib and ~/mail), it was pretty simple to set up filters for my various mailing lists. If the need ever arises I’ll add SpamAssassin into my setup as well.
- Signed up for aNobii and entered in all the books in my immediate vicinity (the ones at my desk, not any of the ones on my bookshelf behind me).
- Started on the lexer/parser of an esoteric programming language (more posts about this in the near future).
- Finally wrote (am writing?) another blog post.
All this mail server setup is the first step in an attempt to reduce my dependence on Google (i.e. replace GMail), as well as set myself up with a long-overdue paulbonser.com email address. It’s not that I don’t trust Google (well, actually, I guess I don’t have that much of a reason to trust Google…), but I like to be able to have more control (and actual ownership) of things. I’ll write more about “Quitting Google” in the future.
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