August 2006 Archives
For people having "wierd" things with mail.gigo.com and imap, you might try instead mail2.gigo.com. mail.gigo.com has some settings to try and make things just like it was on the old server. mail2.gigo.com does not have that. (If you do switch servers, you should remove the account on your mail software entirely - then add a "new" account and use mail2.gigo.com for the imap server).
I've got my check ride scheduled. I'm taking a few weeks off from work in September; 2 of those weeks will be spent with my intructor working on getting me up to snuff, working on the pet peeves of my particular designated pilot examiner. Hopefully a month from now, I should have my license!
When flying, you're not supposed to follow another plane too closely. Not just due to the laws of man, but also the laws of physics. They leave behind wake turbulance, which is a disturbance in the air generated by the wings of the plane pretty much any time the plane is off the ground. The slower, heavier, and cleaner the plane is flying, the more disturbance it is leaving behind.
This weekend we did 360 turns, at a tight 45 degree angle. Those can be fun - you basically feel the effects of a couple G's. As it turns out, if you do a 360 turn, at 45 degrees, and you do it correctly - you run into your own turbulance, and get a nice bump confirmation.
The mail stuff is done. Horray!
- POP3 supports SSL/TLS on the POP3S port, 995
- IMAP supports SSL/TLS on the IMAPS port, 993
- SMTP supports SSL/TLS as an option on the SUBMISSION port, 587. If your ISP is blocking port 25, you can use port 587 to send mail, if you're authenticated (SMTP with username/password).
- SMTP also supports a fulltime wrapped port on port 465 (some older apps will want this).
- SMTP lastly will still honor STARTTLS on the standard SMTP port.
- SMTP AUTH is working after the upgrades. I still need to provide a password change tool. Until I do so, poke me directly.
SSL should "just work" as long as you use the name mail.gigo.com. We're using a paid-for certificate that should have root trusts. I tested Thunderbird and Mail.App (apple), and they worked. I also got pine working (with these instructions).
For those who are curious, the new combination of software on the server is now: OpenSSL, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Postfix (with Dovecot SMTP AUTH), Squirrelmail, and Apache with SSL. Filtering is provided by both Dovecot LDA + libsieve, and via procmail, depending on user preferences.
Bookmark this URL; if you have problems getting your gigo.com mail (or any other mail hosted at gigo.com), this page should have information you may need.
Status: Done. Everything is back online now.
Placeholder, will describe SquirrelMail and procmail filtering.
(primarilly for unix users)
