Moving IMAP accounts from Courier to Google Mail

I ran imapsync on my mail server like this to move a couple of accounts away from my server: imapsync  –syncinternaldates –host1 localhost –user1 user –password1 secret  –host2 imap.gmail.com –port2 993 –ssl2 –user2 [email protected] –password2 secret  –authmech1 LOGIN –authmech2 LOGIN –split2 100 (WordPress is a bit too clever, so — above means two hyphens. Sorry.)… Continue reading Moving IMAP accounts from Courier to Google Mail

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Spotify Mixer DJ Software

This is not a new idea. A Swedish forum has a discussion thread Dj:a med Spotify that suggested the same thing months ago. With both despotify and libspotify available, someone with time and interest could make something like UltraMixer but with Spotify as the main source of music. A DJ with this application would have… Continue reading Spotify Mixer DJ Software

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SSL certificate anguish revisted

About one year and one month ago I wrote about SSL certificate anguish. Recently the certificate has expired so I wanted to create a new one. Unfortunately the apache2-ssl-certificate tool went missing and as my server runs Ubuntu 8.04.2 (Hardy) it’s simply not there! I did this to create the new self-signed certificate: Download the… Continue reading SSL certificate anguish revisted

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MySQL, the new Cinderella

Oracle tried to buy MySQL. Sun bought MySQL. Oracle buys Sun. MySQL will become Cinderella with the ugly stepmother Oracle mistreating her.

Tired of Lighttpd

The initial VPS package I ordered did not have very much RAM so I decided to run Lighttpd. Since then I have upgraded the VPS to a pretty luxurious package so the RAM limitation hardly applies anymore. I still haven’t moved all my websites from the old server to the VPS and I just realized… Continue reading Tired of Lighttpd