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Thu, 29 Nov 2007

Music and software in the evening

I listened to Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensymphonie" tonight, which is a fairly powerful piece - but not as overwhelming as Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melisande", which I listened to once more.

Meanwhile, Snort listened to traffic on our network for me. - I've started using lftp and also Nautilus (the file browser) for FTPing stuff to websites.

Posted on 29 Nov 2007 at 21:45 in /life. -- Permalink

Gmail POP works again

Apparently they fixed the problem - whatever it was. I hope it'll stay this way for some time. In the meantime, I changed my e-mail address for quite a number of newsletters, web accounts etc. to the e-mail account on my own server.

Posted on 29 Nov 2007 at 20:01 in /technology/e-mail. -- Permalink

Amity Newsletter online

With the latest issue already on the way to the printer (or so we hope!), I finally got round to posting the 3rd issue for this year. With the CMS we're still using for the ANL, posting articles and photos is always a terrible hassle. Very time-consuming, and it's all but impossible not to make any mistakes. The end product looks rather middling, too. Time to move on to something much better: Mambo? Plone?

Posted on 29 Nov 2007 at 12:43 in /work. -- Permalink

Password problem (3): Gmail

After configuring Thunderbird for Gmail IMAP, I receive a message saying that my "credentials" weren't correct. I guess that's IMAP slang for "authentication error" - the same problem. Gmail's help pages and Google Groups help group don't provide any clues either.

Best to get out of Gmail altogether, I guess.

Posted on 29 Nov 2007 at 10:35 in /technology/e-mail. -- Permalink

Password problem (2): Gmail and Thunderbird

Thunderbird, too, gets an authentication error message from the Gmail server when it tries to download e-mails. I still don't understand why this problem first appeared after I changed my Gmail password but it't pretty obvious now that something's wrong on Gmail's side.

Apparently the Gmail guys are having trouble enabling IMAP support for all users ("If the option to enable IMAP isn't available in your Google Mail account's 'Forwarding and POP' settings, you can enable IMAP for your account by simply enabling POP access. We're currently working hard to make enabling IMAP easier for all our users."). So maybe my problem is somehow related to that.

Posted on 29 Nov 2007 at 10:18 in /technology/e-mail. -- Permalink

Password problem: Gmail and Evolution

I changed my Gmail password, now Evolution Mail can't log on and download my e-mails anymore. That's extremely annoying and I've already spent more than an hour trying to solve this problem. I learned that in 2005 apparently there was a bug in Evolution which prevented the program from changing its saved passwords; I guess this has been fixed since. In any event, this is obviously not the cause of the problem I've encountered. I even changed my password back to what it was before; the error persists.

Is it a Gmail problem? Does Gmail's POP server return an authentication error although Evolution sends the correct username and password? Message forwarding to a different e-mail account isn't working either. But why would this problem start after I changed the password? Strangely, I can access my Gmail account on the web and Google Talk works fine, too.

Posted on 29 Nov 2007 at 00:00 in /technology/e-mail. -- Permalink


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